„Falk Richwien’s work is about a time that has lost its centre(s). Having lost its hold in religious practice or historical progress, consciousness is no longer integrated by ever-same symbolisms and allegedly intrinsic values. Stable orientations of commonly accepted hierarchies and meanings give way to a mere play of power and impotence. It is each individual that faces the challenge to find its way through the mist of meaninglessness. The body still has to face death. In a multi-medial and multi-communicative situation, it is only our bodily senses and fleshly feelings that can help us. For Richwien, direct experience takes precedence over reason and understanding. Although illusion is ever-present and cannot be ignored, immediate experience is the only, limited compass we have. “I torture consciousness to bring something to consciousness.” Art, for Richwien, is also about taking social responsibility. Lacking firm grounds, as well as authoritative guidelines, it is the way we decide that makes for moral and political responsibility. Absent objective guidelines, art may have a role in helping us guide ourselves. With “the end of history” postmodernity is not necessarily an “end of society”, too.. It can also be understood as a time where it is up to us to create and shape our inner and outer spaces and establish a sort of contact unmediated by pre-existing, higher rules. As a result, interaction is essential to Falk Richwien’s work: art becomes play, the audience becomes participant. In a process of communication between tradition and modernity, distance and intimacy, as well as the interrelations between inner and outer spaces are the topic. Instead of carrying the weight of binding norms, we are taken on a walk between worlds, to where inner and outer landscapes interpenetrate/intermingle/merge.“