digging for shades [nach Schattierungen graben]

2024, linoleum prints, on paper and textile, different sizes and editions

The idea that our organism is influenced by our way of life and our environment and that this has an impact on our genes and those of future generations has long preoccupied people of different cultures, beliefs and sciences. Genetic information is changed by external influences, social inequalities or forceful events, as well as by intense emotions – even if these are not our own, they can have an influence and shape us individually and collectively. This is what epigenetics says. A science that tries again, explains, satisfies needs, has target groups and at the same time proves nothing. 

The prints and illustrations are therefore notes, collected thoughts and attempt to shed light on one’s own genetic material, asking about what is stored and which of one’s own and other people’s feelings or memories are connected by networks of relationships and could have an influence on their own genetic information.

Fotos: Daniela Fiala