Mother's TongueThe main focus of Carina Brandess (*1982) photographic work exhibited 2018 at Kunstverein Heilbronn is her own body, which she uses as a material in her work in a rather detached manner, according to currently popular interpretation. This results in surreal confrontations between her body and the most diverse object worlds, which turns the seemingly everyday settings into mysterious events full of latent desires. In the context of current gender and