What Are You Fishing For?

What Are You Fishing for? (2015), whose title draws inspiration from Ernest Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea, is a hypnotic video work that offers a multi-layered narrative with iconographic symbolism for viewers to travel through. Roescheisen herself takes center stage, moving slowly and deliberately in front of the camera, immersing herself in the icy cold waters. Imbued in an atmosphere of melancholy, solitude, and introspection, the scenery transports the audience into a dreamlike realm where the boundaries between life and death, the conscious and the subconscious become blurred. What Are You Fishing for? was exhibited at GAAF Foundation at the 56th Venice Biennale, alongside artists like Daniel Buren and Yoko Ono.