Polaroid was always the footage of the minute. Right now. No long film development, selecting and examining the negatives, waiting again to see whether the prints also corresponded to the hoped-for results. After a few minutes, it was developed in the mini-laboratory, which the image brought with it integrated into itself.
The Polaroid had a firm place in professional photography as well as in the so-called amateur world. However, it was never about precision and lifelike depiction, but in the professional area about pre-inspection and in private life about the fascination of the quick memory result and the "miracle" of the image creation, which one could visually witness within a minute.
In the field of art, Polaroid has always been used in a variety of ways, partly as a contemporary document, partly integrated into an experimental process of image creation and image control or as an artistic end product itself. Immediate availability always included confirmation of the situation just experienced, and was thus a fundamental, so to speak system-immanent component.
In the works in the “Parallel Worlds” series, real shots are combined with photographed television images from news programs, film sequences and advertising blocks. The combination creates a balance between reality and fiction, which can often no longer be resolved. The viewer connects, develops and decides the story that takes place; Visual specifications, color and shape combinations of the pictures also play a role, as do the given picture content and the viewer's own, very personally pre-shaped picture world.
Media, desired, real and advertising images merge and develop into a new statement. Everything is like a slowly evolving Polaroid.