Stefanie Scheurell - Christian Z

In "Christian Z." Stefanie Scheurell uses photography to explore the turbulent life of the juggling artist Christian. A character who repeatedly moves along the boundaries of social norms in his life - between healthy and sick; on a physical as well as on a psychological level. While the artist's search initially focused on human abysses, madness and addiction, she often came across the exact opposite during her aesthetic research. For although the biography of the main character is "flawed", it contains numerous hopeful moments and shows how a "reset" can succeed. Stefanie Scheurell translates her subjective impressions into an archive of photographs accompanied by Christian Z.'s autobiographical. Her personalised stories are intended to encourage us to enter into a dialogue together about borders, thresholds and how to overcome them. (Lara Bader)