Mona Babl

LOST 2.0

C-prints, 2023

In the series lost 2.0, I combine overpainted templates from magazines and my own photographs. Fiction and reality are blended. At first glance, both look fictitious, but the backgrounds are sad reality. They are my own photographs from the wintry Harz Mountains in 2021 and 2022, a Central European mountain landscape that is already severely affected by drought, storms and other consequences of climate change.

The myth of the German forest as a romantic notion of originality and robustness is gone and the forest landscapes are in a phase of transformation.

With their exaggerated gestures, the figures appear lost and out of place in nature and show our forlornness in an environment that we ourselves have caused. We close our eyes to the facts and carry on as before.

Mona Babl studied architecture at the TFH Berlin and fine art/sculpture at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee. In 2004 she was a master student of Karin Sander.
She is a founding member of the artist group msk7, with whom she has been realizing temporary projects in public spaces and art in architecture competitions since 2004.