Bodelle:The double life of Stefan K.

J.B. or S.K. - just selfie fans? With his presence in various social networks, Bodelle provokes both photographically and literarily. His alter ego Stefan Koenig does not fall short either. They use contemporary themes to raise awareness of our origins as well as our future. With wit, charm, and self-irony, they create photographic self-portraits that one is reluctant to dismantle. They do not protect the walls of silence and do not conceal the power of explosive ideas. The German photographer and novelist Stefan Koenig presents this new photographic art book, reminiscent of Cindy Sherman, Sherrie Levine, and Robert Longo. His self-stagings take us through the world of the absolutely extraterrestrial. But he is also at home in our here and now, applying for roles in the mafia, Vatican Bank, and as the Pope. As a plastic surgeon, he undertakes daring self-experiments. As a dreamer, he grapples with time zones. He tries to make himself invisible when the artificial visibility of social media seems too vulgar to him. He is searching for the land where purple chocolate grows. He seeks a homeland where cucumbers thrive as ecological face masks in the very fields where Easter eggs also grow. If such a place did not already exist, it would have to be called Phantasia-Land. But are names not just sound and smoke? Bodelle alias Koenig echoes and smokes away. Their companions are plenty of toilet paper rolls, which were in short supply due to corona; then the bananas that were missing in the GDR due to corona. Ultimately, their double lives are marked by a West-East love that some lost due to corona. Missing a theme? Then let yourself be surprised...