A CORNER OF HOME 

Moritz Jekat

Published 22 June, 2020 

In the days that have passed and the days that are to come, we'll all be spending more time indoors. A Corner of Home collects photographic studies and new works made by artists in their immediate environments; small snapshots of the impulse to create.

Edited by Trine Stephensen and Joanna Cresswell 

1. Where are you living at the moment and how has that environment shaped you creatively? Can you tell us about a favourite detail of this place and why?

I am living with my partner and her daughter in Berlin-Neukölln in a cozy three-room apartment at the moment. The flat is on the ground floor and we are surrounded by other houses, a yard on one end and our own little garden on the other. This garden is definitely my favourite big detail of this place. It’s our cute urban oasis, where I can sit quietly in the morning, surrounded by plants and the neighbouring buildings, including an old abandoned brick house, overgrown by trees and ivy. When I am sitting there, drinking tea and listening to the birds and our neighbours waking up, while the morning sun warms me up, it is the time of the day when I think of new ideas or shaping thoughts about ongoing projects and taking notes.

2. How have you looked at the materials of home differently in the past weeks? Are there parts of it that have revealed themselves to you in new ways?

Since I have had a lot of time during the past few weeks – time I spend at home instead of the studio – I have found out about every corner and every minute of sunlight in our apartment. Following the sun from one window to another, and from one room to another, each room has revealed its own special sets to me. Plants, objects and situations with my partner or stepdaughter have come up, and into focus, which I might have missed otherwise. I started thinking about the flat in a different way, found new favourite spots and also rearranged things a lot.

3. Tell us about how you’ve been using photography lately? What are you making or putting in front of the lens?

I have an ongoing project where I focus on adolescence and AI, combining still-lifes and sculptures with portraits of my stepdaughter. So it was logical photographing my almost 13 year old stepdaughter quite a bit (until she got sick of being my model all the time). I also started to work on sleeping projects that have been sitting on my drives untouched for a year or two. I’ve been going through these older images and looking at them with new eyes, cropping them differently, and it has revealed some new options and ideas to me, and opened up a huge box of inspiration.

Thank you Moritz

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