For his ongoing series Island Kiesenhofer follows Michel Foucault’s concept of heterotopia and explores the transfer of desire and queer sexuality to insular spaces like Fire Island or the Greek Islands, capturing the intimate surroundings and portraying domestic interiors.

Framed behind etched glass, the motifs of the landscapes and interior views recede into the background, and the originally sharp photographs become blurred placeholders for themselves.

Spacer bars and neon colors create a visual boundary that emphasizes the space between the photograph and the display, simultaneously blurring the motifs and making them inaccessible. Derrida refers to this intermediate space as parergon, a term that describes the contextual addition to a work of art that is neither completely inside nor completely outside the work. The distancing elements and glass filters emphasize the fragility and transience of these safe spaces.