The photo series shows different arrangements of materials, actions, as well as parts of a female body. The 12 different images in total create a new kind of body which carries all the different aspects and atmospheres of each presented picture. In this way, it tries to expand the female body into different realms and atmospheres which creates new contexts and perspectives of it. 

The history of the female body is marked by violence. Even after more than fifty years of active women's movement, well over 100 women in Germany still die every year from domestic violence - murdered by people with whom they shared their lives. Violence demands protection. In the photo series “Self-Portrait in 12 Pieces” we see a woman's body from the side, which not only is wearing a layer of protective leather, but is also held in place by an orthopedic support bandage. Two other photographs show a lifeless body that is touched on the buttocks by a hand. This lifeless body from behind is also wearing leather, which, however, could not protect it, because this body is reminiscent of Sandra, a young woman who was raped and murdered while hitchhiking in 1992. Sandra was a friend of the artist and to this day is her most direct reminder of this highest form of physical and psychological violence on the female body. 

Concrete - hard and repellent on the outside like brute force. Behind it a protection zone. We see a concrete hole. If we had concrete holes, no one could rape us anymore. 

We also see a tripod, photographed at different distances, a Fendi jacket is thrown over it. It looks like a static dummy, like women as dummy, a lifeless surface without content, only the form counts. 

The story of the female body is a story of physical and psychological violence. The work doesn't shy away from clearly positioning itself. An attitude that is also talking to us in an erotic way, in its classic manifestations such as black leather, high heel shoes, a Fendi jacket and fishnet tights. This eroticism is meant to be soulful towards the self, empowering and opposing the fear of the history of women as women: physically and mentally, sideways, frontally, standing upright and secured, sometimes in leather and orthopedic corsage, sometimes as a tripod or cast in concrete.