In her work “Platzhalter des Nichts” Anna Siggelkow decodes found scenes and places them in a new context. She depicts a flattened world between figuration and abstraction. Even if certain elements of the scene are by nature pragmatic and functional, in the images they unfold a remarkable, special energy. The banal objects in the settings appear to play a role in a somehow important and, on the other hand, absurd spectacle. Anna Siggelkow lampoons the human aspiration to try and assign a clearly defined function to everything. It is a manic response to a capitalistically shaped world that plays a visual game of a goal-oriented lifestyle.