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The world’s bravest, strongest and smartest women are gathered in the world’s museums. They have been sitting, standing or lying on display for decades, centuries. Important artists created them. Your value is immeasurable. We approach them in awe and keep our distance. I visit them in the temples of high art and allow myself to be attracted by their power.

I mold the ones in front of whom I have to stop because their charisma captivates me in clay – regardless of whether they are muses, Madonna or maidens, class, rank, name or millennium. I work on site in the high-security wing of the museum and contrast the idealized women’s bodies, which celebrate a lot of naked skin and a glorified idea, with my sketchy clay figures. They complement the glorifying image of women with a version without sex appeal. My recreations are no pin-ups. They are tangible, three-dimensional, burlesque and pure.

Visitors help hold the hand-sized sculptures in front of the original. I take a documentary photo of this action as a trophy, as loot. During this always beautiful encounter we talk

My utopian idea is to sculpt all the women in all the paintings worldwide in clay. By building an infinitely large collection of small, soft sculptures, I comment on and address the position of women in art and society.