The work Brainstormer is a photographic exploration of absurdity and simultaneity in the context of the year 2016. The photographs are the product of a kind of self-constructed pilgrimage, the route of which was based on significant waypoints in the life and death of the French writer Albert Camus and traversed France from north to south. The absurd destinations such as the cemetery in Lourmarin, where Camus is buried, or the now relocated main road on which he died, provided the occasion for me to confront in retrospect the photographic aesthetics of journey and retreat with the representations of socio-historical events that were in circulation shortly before, during and shortly after the journey. The process of inner and outer travel, which is already ambivalent in itself, is thus confronted with the absurdity and perceived senselessness of a real incident in the contemporary historical context of these events. As an artist‘s book, the work consists of 10 unique pieces, all of which were produced by hand on a photocopier. Like a cognitive-associative map, two hypothetical stacks of images constantly grow upwards in the course of the narration, the visual and mental material shifts and conveys an impression of the structure and mechanisms of the absurd. The gesture is reflected in the moment of its expression.