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“We tend to think of genres like westerns as owned by their male protagonists. At the same time, as a little girl, I was also fascinated by them; they were these repositories for all my fantasies and desires. I identified with their male heroes at the same time that I longed for them, which creates a very strange emotional mixture. So from the beginning I had this image in my head: of a building or architectural space, and a woman looking at it from the outside – and then, suddenly, stepping inside it. I also thought of the period after 1989 as a time full of promise – of democracy and capitalism – and how everyone dreamt of being a millionaire. But the reality is that these adventures, these dreams, are very often quite ambivalent.”
Valeska Grisebach
