Gender is a social construct, as we express it - a performance. Drag, burlesque, queerlesque, vaudeville, cabaret, circus and acrobatic artists work with a gender performance that questions norms and thereby creates a queer space that allows freedoms beyond binary worlds. With humor, eroticism, irony and tragedy, their performance is political and queerfeminist. Nostalgia, pop culture and fashion styles flow into the performance as quotes. The Polaroid visualizes this retro-nostalgia and reminds us of the Carte de la Visite, cards with which the first burlesque actresses presented themselves in the mid-19th century.

Connectedness with nature - displays itself in many forms. Naturists feel this directly through their naked skin. During their naked hikes through German forests, they experience feelings of freedom, originality and rebellion. An unusual form of protest in our digital age, in which nature seems ever more distant to us and in which nudity is constantly present in the media, but seems to be increasingly withdrawing from our everyday life into the role of the private. In my photographic work "Die Naturisten" (The Naturists) I document, in the context of German naturist history, a group that is part of the new nude hiking movement and at the same time question the romantic image of the human in nature.