Yvonne Buchheim

What does your body know? With this question artist Yvonne Buchheim invited people into her studio for portraits attempting to capture body knowledge. What she did not know was the story her own body would tell. In this art book she shares her story of healing from cancer. Her artworks are poetic reiterations between visual and written language revealing the many facets that serious illness can have on the body and mind. The artwork is complimented by two essays that explore fragility and resilience in surviving illness. Kopfüberleben (Life Turned Upside Down) presents us with creative forms of storytelling that use drawing, photography and stop-motion filmmaking not as documents but as a narrative of self-discovery.