Katrin Ströbel

Katrin Ströbel

To travel is a really important part of my work, because I like sometimes to be displaced in order to develop my work under different, unstable and temporary conditions. I also like to question my work – or rather the visual language of my work – in non-western contexts, that is one reason why I worked a lot in Arabic, Subsaharian African countries or in Latin America. That´s sometimes risky, sometimes exhausting, but I learned so much about my work and my own practise by working in these countries, things that I would have never learned in Europe! It´s true that I started to learn Arabic before I went to Morocco, but I can hardly speak or write Arabic. Well, at least I know the different letters (arabic letters look different if they are at the beginning in the middle or in the end of a word), I can read street signs, advertisings and I can ask for bread or a kilo of tomatoes at the medina market…