Lena Maria Thuering

In my work I approach the personal histories of individuals or groups and their environment using various media, such as photography, video or installation.
Reflections on social systems and their construction within an assigned space play an important part in my work, as well the combination of memory, history and space.
In the film piece "The House" (2008), half a century of a family's history is projected on the empty walls of a detached house: the camera runs through the building while a narrator's voice tells the past. The film "Big Brother, Brother, Sister, Little Sister" (2009) focuses on the process of recollection by retelling a family saga. The social roles of man and woman as father and mother are as central to the film as the children's roles: all are shaped by social expectations, feelings of responsibility, dependence and gender specific behaviour.