Droopy Rose

Theresa Büchner
2021

“I wrote my will when I was nine. At that time my parents built a garage for their new car. That was important, because a new car can’t be exposed to sunlight. It damages the car paint. I want them to drive the car into a ravine. I wrote that in my will.”

A child is left alone at home. The rules and codes of the adults seem ubiquitous: “No TV before eleven in the morning” – but nobody is around to check on the child's behaviour. While watching TV the child starts to relate to scripted reality show actor Daniela. Her subversive actions enable the child to search for a way out.

About the artist:
Theresa Büchner (1993, Aachen, Germany) develops visual works with a focus on film, photography and text. Theresa Büchner graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam in 2018. She returned to Germany in 2019 to complete her studies at HAW Hamburg and Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. Her short film "Demolding a Daughter" premiered at the Nederlands Film Festival and was nominated for the Steenbergen Photography Prize in 2018. Her short film "Droopy Rose" premiered a Kasseler Dokfest 2021. In summer 2021 she is awarded a scholarship as artist in residence at AAIR in Antwerp.