Postcard Set

Luka Naujoks is an artist who lives and works in Berlin and Leipzig. She studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig in the class of Prof. Michael Riedel. Luka works with various media, but mainly with photography, collages, printing processes, photo overpaintings and small objects. Her work also includes a performative practice. At the moment she is most interested in the idea of the collective, which has evolved into a general interest in connections that are made or already exist. She explores interconnectedness and kinship, wonders if there is such a thing as a collective consciousness, and is interested in fictions and narratives that are passed on and are within us. She is currently researching collective labour processes and how different identities can merge into a new, fictional body.

überwinden, sich halten (holding oneself)

The series is perhaps more an assemblage of sketches and beginnings of thoughts. I started taking photographs of various friends and experimenting with these images; I printed the pictures, cut them apart, covered parts of the photo, painted over them, reassembled them, layered them again and again. For me, the actual connections between things manifest themselves in the handling of the material. The general connectedness of all beings does not interest my as much as a specific relationship of continual differentiation. How are things intertwined and how binding is connectedness? Is a community not even necessary in all areas of life? Perhaps this series is also a first visualisation of the idea that keeps coming up in my head: the collective body in which the most diverse entities are united.