‘The question of whether one's life was thrown into the sand the moment one decided to study art.’ A conversation with Johanna Seidel

I come from a small village in the far east of Germany, where I grew up in a house with my siblings, parents and grandparents. My childhood is embedded in the post-reunification period and many things there still seem a bit out of time. I was surrounded by forest, animals and especially older people with an agricultural background.