ARTIST PROFILE

Merlin Ortner

  • Germany (b. 1982 in Cologne)
  • Currently in Berlin, Germany.

REPRESENTATION

Leviathan 8

Leviathan 8

  • 2015
  • Analogue Photograph
  • 30 x 45 cm
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    Leviathan | 2015 - 2016

Leviathan The woman who sees dragon faces. Pungent red eyes pointed ears: Since her childhood, every human being turns into a lizard-like creature. The doctors gave her drugs - but then the woman sees ants crawling over her hands. When the patient looks at other people, their faces turn into dragon heads. Although they can detect and distinguish between faces - but after a few minutes they are black and they grow long, pointed ears and a long snout. The skin of the other person then acts as a reptile, from the head stand out big eyes in bright yellow, green, blue or red. Such dragon faces the woman also sees several times a day coming from the walls to be used from sockets or screens. At night, she sees the dragon faces in the dark. The Woman knows the dragon faces since her childhood, back then hallucinations have not bothered her. Only in adolescence, she realizes that not all people so perceive faces as they. She feels isolated, suffering from depression and finally starts to drink ...