In a realm of layered temporalities, WHERE DEER FLY AND STONES CRY weaves an autofictional journey. Through reinterpretation and transformation, it confronts rigid binary, religious, and patriarchal structures, drawing from a legend of a shape-shifting stone and a place called ‘Paradise’, where surface beauty masks deeper tensions. Through photographs oscillating between staging and documentation, drawings by Erli Grünzweil’s grandfather and a collaborative text written together with Ines Frieda Försterling, a world emerges in which nothing can be taken for granted. From a queer perspective, the project challenges the normative values, truths, and inherited narratives that have been passed down through generations.
