Tina is her nickname and is used by close friends. In an interview, however, she clarifies: “Who wants to be called Martina Egger? – like a beer!” Knebl was her grandparent’s surname, Jakob and Lena were their first names. A life-size ceramic head sits on a metal frame. The mouth is colored black, the eyes sockets in a mixture of colors like those on a palette. The face is dotted with red spots, above the forehead they are blue. Below is a green, sexless body, a stuffed doll, with one leg and one arm amputated. The body is closed and sewn, made of imitation leather and skin-tight. Knebl is concerned with human-object relationships, with shifting boundaries of taste and the tightrope walk towards sexuality. Roles are significant here – disguises, stagings and projections. “I am inspired by the figure of the harlequin or the King’s jester, as he had the function of addressing things that others were not allowed to say.”

Thomas D. Trummer, 2021 (translation: Virginia Dellenbaugh)