Kammerjäger

The exterminator referred to here is not the kind of person who gets rid of unwanted vermin, like someone you can reach at 030/6634065, but rather a metaphor. He is on a hunt within the space, interested in the various appearances of the things and beings he is lying in wait for. He doesn't exterminate, but rather constructs an image of the fascination of an insect's wing or a chitin-covered beetle's carapace. He is, in a sense, a collector, seeking the subtle secrets beneath the stones and treating them like trophies.

The Exterminator project opens up a cosmos of hybrid beings that oscillate between nature and technology, the living and the dead. From everyday fragments, found objects, and organic materials, objects emerge that are simultaneously beetle bodies, machine fragments, and cultic relics.

Its true power lies in transformation: the seemingly lifeless is imbued with movement, rhythm, or aura. Shoes mutate into armor, helmets into masks, and contraptions unfold wings. Here, an animistic way of thinking returns, one that doesn't perceive things as mute, but rather as resonating chambers for imagination and memory.

The exterminator appears as a dual figure: hunter and keeper, banisher and conjurer. The mechanical movements—pendulum swings, tremors, slow openings—are simultaneously experimental setups and rituals. In them, rationality and magic, technology and archaic gesture merge.

Thus, "Exterminator" is more than a collection of objects: it is a conceptual model exploring the fragile boundary between human and thing, nature and artifact. It reveals that the foreign can not only be eradicated but also understood as a mirror of our own existence.

A portfolio of prints on this theme has also been created.