Last year I started a series of drawings related to drawings I made during a vacation with family members in 1984. I am glad my godparents kept the drawings of the Hansa Park. That’s an amusement park located in the north of Germany which we visited on our trip.
I don’t remember this trip at all, even though I was already 5 years old. Some years ago my family showed me photographs of the trip. They told me stories; Me always wanting to have a ride on a very fast merry-go-round, which made my mother almost throw up.
I realized while time is passing by I have incorporated their stories into my memory. I even caught myself telling someone the stories they told me in a way as if I was fully aware what happened back in 1984 on that trip. The photographs, and the stories I have been told make me believe this really happened.
I found this very fascinating, so in 2008 I traveled back to the amusement park to find some answers. The park was closed, but as it was very small, I got a very good impression from just walking around the fence. I made photographs. Back at home I again made drawings related to what I saw.
In the installation Hansaland I projected the slides I made of the amusement park onto the drawings that have also been made related of my visit in 2008. I got the opportunity to show this installation work in an exhibition in May 2009.
The installation has been presented in a gallery form May 2009 until June 2009, in an exhibition called Plan B. Here you can find some impressions of the opening.
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