„Amerika” shows the working conditions of immigrant workers during the orange harvest around Valencia, Spain, focusing on the day-to-day realities for the people who are involved as well as the system they are working under. The title refers to Franz Kafka’s last, unfinished book and as such covers the issues Gebert would like to address: the romantic notion of the promised land, the longing for a better life and the complex history of migration including it’s harsh realities in the form of exploitation and slavery.

biography

1976 born in Munich, Germany

1998 – 2003 Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, Class of Timm Rautert

2001 – 2002 Glasgow School of Art, Environmental Art Department

2003 – 2005 Master Student under Timm Rautert, Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig

2004 – 2006 MA Photography at the Royal College of Art, London