Cottbus, after the structural transformation. In a youth club operating across changing locations in the city, young men come together, hang out, present themselves. I visited this place regularly over several months and photographed there. The young men know each other, some closely, others only in passing. A web of belonging and demarcation that resists clear definition.

Rhizom addresses in-between spaces: between image and body, between role model and self. The work translates roles into images strongly shaped by digital visual cultures. Gestures emerge, are adopted and passed on, until the sequence is no longer traceable. Set against this is a fixed, physical place. The youth club functions as a connective element in the work, without ever being shown. It is a space of encounter, but also of confrontation.

The images show what goes without saying: poses that repeat, attitudes that are passed on. Alongside the loud ones are the quiet ones, alongside the self-assured the ones who observe. Rhizom holds on to what emerges on screens and continues in the body.