`Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, `if it was so, it might be;
and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'
(Lewis Carroll, »Through the Looking Glass»)



The Logic of Desire was originally planned as part 1 of a larger cycle of works called Dark Carnival, named after Ray Bradbury's collection of short stories. Sketches for parts 2+7 (Paradise Lost and Dance of the Hours) are also present here, and parts 4-6 later became the works of the Cinderella Machine (group of works XVII). The conception and development of the work are elaborated in the available project book.

The diploma work at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) was supported by the KHM as well as the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation, Museum Folkwang Essen, as part of the Scholarship for Contemporary German Photography.











Exhibitions:

1995
Lichtblick Gallery Cologne (solo exhibition); Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle Cologne (Ctlg); Trinitatis Church Cologne
1996
Basilica St. Gereon Cologne; Inge Baecker Gallery Cologne (solo exhibition);
Wilhelm-Hack-Museum Ludwigshafen (Ctlg); Maschinenhalle Friedlicher Nachbar Bochum;
Dumont Kunsthalle Cologne
1997
Sandmann + Haak Gallery Hannover (solo exhibition); TZR Gallery Bochum (solo exhibition)
1998
Inge Baecker Gallery Cologne; Altonaer Museum Hamburg
2000
State Gallery Moritzburg / Georgenchurch Halle
2001
Artspace M54 Basel