Curated by Natascha Häutle

Esther Teichmann's practice moves across the still
and moving image, sculpture and textile, creating alternate
worlds, which blur autobiography and fiction. We are taken into
an orphic world, moving through rivers, oceans and lakes, to beds,
swamps and caves, in search of a primordial return. Central to the
work lies an exploration of the origins of fantasy and desire and
how these are bound to the maternal and experiences of loss and
representation. These ideas of an impossible return, of grief and a
sense of inherited homesickness, return us to the womb, to the
original home of mother and beyond. This image of otherness
hails the maternal as an image of escape, a place to travel
to: backwards and towards. Thinking about our bodies as
sites of knowledge production, Teichmann reimagines
space and encounters through feminist subjectivity. 

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