 Thank you My name is Claudia Reinhardt. I'm from Germany. I'm living in Berlin and I'm teaching in Norway as well. So I live in Norway part-time as well and I work there as a associate professor at the Academy in Bergen Yeah This photo which you can see here and which is shown in the exhibition as well is called Sylvia and It's it's one photograph out of ten stage Photographed from the series called killing me softly to this art. I I Recreated suicide of female artist by imagining the very last moment and pictured myself in the roles of these personalities and This one Sylvia refers to Sylvia Blas Which I think is Well known in in the US I all Started with Sarah Kane, which is this one. It's it's called Sarah And Sarah Kane committed suicide in 99. I Was very shocked when I was reading about her suicide and I was very Sad as well as well because I just discovered her writings and I was very Into her work So I couldn't get this this Sadness out of my head and and I noticed that That there are quite many writers and Artists who committed suicide. So this was a trigger. So to say that I started to to deal with this female artists and I was going into biographies and In the work of Yeah, of artists who committed suicide and What what I was interested in and I was and what I was thinking of Was if there is any connection to to these artists why in a way I of course I was thinking why did they committed suicide, but of course it was not Possible and in the end I I don't think that I was really looking for this answer But I was looking for yeah, is there something they have in common and And I I Think I can yeah, they have something in common It's difficult to explain in few sentence and I don't want to do that But that was the reason why why I I did the whole series and And if if you if you watch the Images and the book I made I think you can follow and you can Find this connection these artists have but I should go on with my notes and otherwise I talked too much Yeah, I just go on and tell Some some facts and details about these artists This is Anne Sexton and Sexton committed suicide in 1974 and She was an American poet and she discovered writing as a way to save her own life that was that that was what she was saying about herself or her work and Later on when she Was already famous She took her mother's fur coat went into the garage sat down in her car and left the engine running and This this story about That she was wearing the fur of her mother I was reading in a book and I don't know if this is true, but I found of course many Stories about how how they commit suicide and and like this this legends days always Material you can find about their deaths and it's and I don't know if it's true But sometimes I use it and sometimes not in this and in this case. I thought This is a nice picture in a way This is Diane Diane Abbas. She lived from 90 from 1923 to 1971 she was an American photographer and She slit her wrist in the bathroom of her studio There is a persistent legend that she photographed her own death Which I also can't prove but I thought this is interesting idea as well and This is the only photo I Photographed with time How do you say self-timer in the other photos? I have a assistant who is Putting the trigger, but of course the scenery I am I'm staging and Putting everything arranging everything This is Ingeborg. Ingeborg Bachmann She lived from 1926 to 73 Austrian writer and she burnt to death in her bed after falling asleep with a cigarette It's not known to this day whether it was an act of suicide or a tragic accident This is Unika Unika Tzüren She lived from 1916 to 1970 German writer and anagram Anagram poet Through herself out of the window of her company on Hans Belmas apartment after being released from a mental hospital This is Adelheid Adelheid Du Vanell She lived from 1936 to 1994 she was a Swiss writer and and she put She took poison and was going in the forest and Was actually freezing to death in a summer night. This is really strange, but it's true This is Clara Imava Clara Imava is the only Character I who is not an artist I have in in the series But I picked her because when I was researching and for this for this matter Yeah, I my sister actually she told me do you know Clara Imava and I didn't so but then I read her Biography and that was very interesting because yeah, she belongs in in in this series. She was Scientist Living yeah in the yeah, I mean she was born in 87 and she died in 1915. So she was one of the first Women in Germany who did her doctor in in Chemie chem chemie chemistry And her husband Fritz Haber as well. He's very well known as as Scientist and because he invented the poison gas which was used in the first world war and and Clara Imava was totally against his investigation and in his involvement in in this war and She killed herself with his gun in in their garden in Berlin as a protest. I Suppose or I'm sure but they the family they destroyed all her letters where she was complaining and and and Describing her Anger against this action of her husband, but they destroyed and burned all her letters This is Karin Karin Boyer She lived from 1941 and she was a Swedish writer. She wrote poems and two novels She fell in love with the female German writer with whom she experienced the rise of the Nazis in Germany and Killed herself with poison on a wooded hilltop with a valley of you. This is I Didn't know this writer before I started with the series and my students told me about her and When I was researching as well, there are not so many her poems are all not translated and There's there are only two novels translated in Germany, but very badly. I think but I could get it that she is a great or was a great writer and very interesting Biography and this image I Created this image because when I was looking for material of her I Discovered a web page made by her brother who's now 80 or 90 years old and it was it was really Nice it was in the beginning when when you open when you come on the on the web page. It said that She That she was going to her favorite spot where she lived and that she took sit down on an on a tree to poison and a Child was coming along to bring her flowers because this child was looking for her and This child knew where her favorite spot was and was going to her. It's also a legend, but I thought this is a really beautiful Picture again and the last one. It's the only male Artist I have in a series. It's it's called Pierre and refers to Pierre Molinier I Have him in this in a series because I I'm I'm a Fan of Pierre Molinier like I'm a fan of all these Artists I have in a series. It's a homage in a way and Yeah, and PM Molinier was dressing up as a woman usually and was doing self portraits very beautiful black and white collages with him and with mask and Wigs and very fantastic and And he committed suicide because he was old or he was thinking he's old. I mean he was 70 and he had Prostata cancer Yeah, and so he he left a good buy letter saying I'm bored to death. I don't want to live anymore so Yeah, that's That's a whole series and I did a book with all these images and Texts about all these artists and these texts are written by ten female Ossos which I Have a close relationship with their friends or Or we became friends during this work and Yeah so There are like more information about these Artists, yeah, I think that's all