What is called identity is, in the mind of Stuart Hall, in fact the continuous process of identification. Piece Of Cake is a reflection on such a process, centred on an old Ahnenpass, an ancestral passport from 1938. Based on this historical document – a kind of Nazi passport intended to prove the Aryan descent of its owner, who in this case was my great-grandfather – the work combines photographic material and texts that revolve around this object in the form of an artist's book and an installation work. Structured by the recipe for the cherry cake depicted in the central image, the artist's book gathers notes, emails, photographs, screenshots and poems to make visible and complicate what is identifiable. In their installative form, these worlds of images and texts present themselves to the viewer on industrially standardised aluminium panels as if on dissecting tables, focused on the author as a subject torn between modes of self-identification and those of identification as something or someone from the outside. The panels themselves are modular and can be rearranged, so that the installation and the composition of the images are only temporary and changing – a dynamic that resembles the actual processes of identification, filtered not through natural laws but through the cultural production of meaning.
Being part instruction and part contemplation, the work makes uncertain what is being looked at, what looks back, and what that means in relation to the construct commonly referred to as „I“ – a construct incessantly dependent on and structured by images, ways of looking and being looked at.

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