"Eight Families of Handshakes" 2007, is a series of ten pictures framed in deep frames, as we know them from the natural history museum. Each one of the eight frames contains its own category of handshakes - selected found footage, mostly press images originally depicting politically influential personalities in the moment they are shaking somebodies hand; to seal an agreement, greet, congratulate or comfort their counterpart. In my work the context is eliminated and only the gesture itself remains. The hands detached from their owners and seen together relate to each other on a formal level - they form a rhythmic stream of categories and stereotypes. All frames are handmade and differ very slightly in size, as if just when one type of gestures was collected and one frame was filled, an amateurish butterfly collector had put it on the wall to start collecting another type.