I first decided to live as an artist at the age of thirty-eight, after having worked in IT first and later on several organic farms. I realised that I needed more freedom and that I have to create art. Maybe, and because of my many identities I like to look at myself and my environment from a different perspective. What I am trying to do is to expand the possibilities of the medium in unconventional ways. Through trial and error, I have found a way to incorporate, infer, retrace, or dissolve my photographic works into installations. The photographs increasingly break away from notions of framed, classical formats. Instead, they take on their own architectural function in space. I use unusual materials to connect photography, the support and space. What is interesting to me is that in this era where everything happens on a flat surface, as a kind of reverse reaction, the originally flat photographs gradually become multi-dimensional objects and appear in the real world. 

I am also trying to bring some of the aesthetics and habits of East Asian art into my own work. This is a very meaningful thing to me.

Einan Kaku （郭 映南）
*1976 in China, lives and works in Stuttgart, Germany