ABOUT 'SPIEGELUNGEN IM MEER'

Leon Eixenberger’s ’Spiegelungen im Meer’ expands the notion of the erotic to the cinematic. His films are invitations to alter the course of personal and collective histories by creating fictions that claim space for desire, intimacy, collectivity and mourning. His way of working involves speculative assemblages of archival records, metabolizing the ghosts of their historical contexts into new exercises of coexistence. By depicting subjects navigating emotional conditions he suggests modes of transformation and care. In his work architecture serves as a metaphorical agent and is understood under the premise that built structures and the inner world of emotions, memory, and imagination influence each other. Eixenberger’s films can be seen as a contemplative and sometimes mystic attempt to resist oppressive ways of thinking and feeling in favor of an anarchic celebration of trust, freedom and all forms of connection.