Hannah Schleifer  

featured in As Above, So Below

Drei Häuser 

On the main road there is a sign that points to a forest road, nothing more than a gravel road with many holes and bumps. Following that road, it doesn’t seem as if there is more than trees and bushes but after the second road bend, tiles are peeking through the seemingly never-ending leaves. Tiles from three tiled roofs of three houses. I found the place that I was creating in my head, secluded life in the countryside, surrounded by nature. 

Mushroom picking, sheep in the back of the garden, ice skating on frozen lakes in the winter and never-ending days in summer. It’s a fenced-off piece of world, times moves slowly here and there is no urge to keep up. They can do their own thing here; the world won’t notice. I didn’t notice. When did this place stop changing? 

Exploring new places by capturing them through a camera is a way to understand them for me. It acts as an ongoing exploration of ways of living that are unfamiliar to me but hold my attention out of personal interest or purely by fascination. Drei Häuser is a project about romanticizing the countryside life. It is an invitation for a conversation between each other; despite different world views.

Previous work
from Trickle Publication

Herzlich Willkommen wäre übertrieben

What is it like to be in a unified place that is actuall constructed for people to live their individual lives in?
The Uni Center presents itself as an own cosmos which a couple of thousand people navigate in. Shouldn’t this amount of people leave traces of personality and community? By spending time in the building and navigating through it I am trying to find answers to these questions and to capture the daunting discretion the place evokes. 

Contact:

Hannahschleifer@posteo.de
@hannah_schleifer