This installation is organized around a historical photograph from circa 1877. It depicts a group—a family perhaps—of victims of a famine in North-east India under British colonial rule. I clipped the photograph from the German magazine DIE ZEIT as a teenager and kept it hidden under my desk mat, never looking at it, but always knowing that it is there. I still keep it as an example of images that cannot be looked at without profoundly affecting the viewer. How can we deal with images like this ? What else can we do but abstract them, everyday, in order to live on?

Kontextualisierung trotz allem? Maria Muhle über Annette Weisser bei Reception, Berlin, in: Texte zur Kunst, 11. Oktober 2011