Hanne Ulla is a Berlin-based artist and illus­tra­tor orig­i­nally born in Nor­way. Her recent and on-going work body of work explores the inter­sec­tions between civ­i­liza­tion, envi­ron­men­tal issues, and iden­tity. Hanne imag­ines bath­rooms and bath­houses and cre­ates dystopian sce­nar­ios, frag­mented and often lack­ing any sort of sense.

Hanne states, “The pre­sen­ta­tion of dif­fer­ent rooms or ‘des­o­lated spaces’ should be a way to affirm real­ity, which is a flux of change, dif­fer­ence and iden­ti­ties.” she explains. “I feel as if these archi­tec­tural draw­ings become med­i­ta­tive as acts of rep­e­ti­tion and endurance, but work­ing with lay­ers of sym­bol­ism together with more ambiva­lent archi­tec­tural struc­tures makes the draw­ing bear wit­ness of a com­plex and per­haps mean­ing­less exis­tence. That detach­ment from both our past and our future under­lies the works. Maybe an attempt to grasp a noth­ing­ness. A noth­ing­ness that defines our subjectivity…“

Hanne’s work has a voyeuris­tic qual­ity to it, as if you’re peer­ing out a win­dow. At the same time, her forms are con­fus­ing (hear­ken­ing a “mean­ing­less exis­tence” and detach­ment) to a space or a room that doesn’t mean that much to us in the first place.

All images via the artist.