Travelling Hands: Somatics of Female Migrant Labor in and around Hamburg

  • Denmark/Germany/Italy, 2025
    Video installation, color, stereo, 20 min.
    52 drawings, various size.

    With the financial support of Behörde für Kultur und Medien Hamburg and ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius

  • Based on women’s biographical narratives, I explore life stories of so-called ‘economic migrants’ from a feminist and post-socialist perspective, with an artistic focus on the specifics of female migrant labor in the Hamburg region. Four economic sectors are highlighted in the project: childcare, household work, the cleaning sector and care for the elderly. The artistic realization focuses on the relationship between class and body, and addresses how physical labor sediments in the limbs and archives somatically. In the video work, the performers embody contradictions between melancholy, progressiveness and rebellious power.

  • The circle of life: The invisible work of the babysitter, the housemaid, the cleaning lady, and the elderly care helper.

  • To listen.
    What I experienced in isolation can only be told with you.

  • The girl in the house.