UN- SICHTBAR – 2026

This series explores a period of thirty-two years that I refer to as my “period of invisibility.”

Following a traumatic experience at the age of fourteen, I increasingly withdrew from the world and from every form of identity formation. Instead, I hid behind a carefully constructed and outwardly seemingly carefree image of myself — first as a teenager, later as a free and independent young woman — as though this were a way of protecting myself.

What had begun as a refuge gradually became a form of self-erasure.

The series comprises four works: three of them engage directly with this invisibility, while the fourth — a self-portrait of the woman I am today — stands as a counterpoint to it.

 

UN- SICHTBAR 01, 2026, oil on canvas, 133×151 cm

 

UN- SICHTBAR, 2026, oil on canvas, 173y151 cm

 

 

 

UN- SICHTBAR 03, 2026, video, 3’01 »

 

 

UN- SICHTBAR 04, 2026, video, 1’12 »

 

 

 

DIVA – 2o24

 

 

 

 

DIVA – SINGEN, 2024, Mixmedia with media-player, 34×34,5×34 cm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

YOU MY PRINCE – 2023

« You my prince » deals with the myriad expectations, contradictions and idealism I held as a young woman about the concept of LOVE. Among these: the absolute belief in one day finding my Prince Charming; my wanting to please a man while not being to tolerate a man’s gaze; and my desire to not remain alone, yet avoiding all contact with men. In this video, I also show the woman I’ve become, who no longer sees LOVE as the SOLUTIONS to life’s questions and uncertainties.

 

 

YOU MY PRINCE, 2023, Video, 1’29 »

Director & concept Caroline Fuss

With Richard, Valentin, Rafael, Matteo, Marco, Fausto, Chris, Andreas, Bo, Alex, Brent and Caroline

 

 

 DISLOCATION – 2022

These works tell the story of a ritual that I repeated every evening for two years after a classmate took her own life when I was fourteen. Her death abruptly tore me out of my childhood and raised questions about life, death, and my own existence to which I could find no answers.

Lost and torn apart by my questions, my incomprehension, and my fear, I kept my suffering to myself and built a wall between myself and others in order to protect myself.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FIFTY-FIFTY, OR THE ART OF BEING IN THE MIDDLE – 2021

“Caroline, she is fifty-fifty.”

This is how my parents described me throughout my childhood. Not entirely like my father, not entirely like my mother: I stood between the two, simultaneously one and the other — and yet neither one nor the other.

As a child, I chose not to choose. This duality — father / mother, everything / nothing, lack of character / multiplicity of characters — gradually became a way of being in the world.

In order to give this “fifty-fifty” a form, I decided to duplicate myself into two figures. Each of them carries three balloons, each representing a memory of my parents. I interpret these memories myself and, through my own body, re-enact a story of lineage and transmission. By playing out these memories once again, I am also trying to reclaim this “fifty-fifty” that defined me for so long.

I no longer stand between them.

I am made from them, but I am myself.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AUTOPORTRAITS

The series « Self Portraits » originated in 2013 from my research about the portrayal of the human face. Using myself as a model, I mixed my everyday « self » with the one appearing regularly on stage at the Zurich Opera. The goal was, to avoid depicting myself photographically, and to instead, play around with memories and feelings. It quickly became apparent that behind alle these made-up, wig-bearing, and/or masked faces, a part of my true self could always be recognized… my own, « variety » being clearly visible. With these self-portraits, I embark on a quest for my true self, questioning me my ability to regularly play the part of another person. Who am I? Which face actually belong to me? So many questions arise that preoccupy and amuse me simultaneously.

 

Autoportrait 14 – 2019 – Black-and-white photograph – different sizes

 

 

 

Autoportrait 12 – 2015 – Oil on canvas – 120×100 cm

 

Autoportrait 11 – 2015 – Oil on canvas – 120×100 cm

 

Autoportraits 10 – 2015 – Acryl on paper – 40×30 cm

 

Autoportraits  10 – 2015 – Acryl auf Papier – 40×30 cm

 

Autoportraits 08 – 2015 – Acryl, in on canvas board – 60×50 cm

 

Autoportraits 06- 2015 – Acryl, Tuche auf Malkarton – 60×50 cm

 

Autoportraits 05 – 2015 – Acryl, ink on canvas board – 60×50 cm

 

Autoportraits 02 – 2015 – Acryl, Tuche on cardboard – 40×30 cm

 

Autoportraits 01 – 2015 – Acryl, Tuche on cardboard – 40×30 cm