The Rise

The story is about a man, who is standing at the window of his office in a highrise. He watches someone who is climbing up the outside stairs of an adjacent office building. As if lost in a Piranesi engraving this man ascends the stairs of a building continuously. An endless journey, through different weather zones, passing several obstacles, fighting against phobia and other opponents. When he thinks, he has made it to the top of the building, he discovers that someone is watching him: this person is himself. He turns around and is doomed to start climbing from zero again.

Courtesy Galerie EIGEN + Art Leipzig/Berlin