Project Heimat is a continuation of Wolff’s previous photographic essay, Heimat, in which she grapples with both exploring and solidifying the dualities of her identity as a woman raised and immersed in Latin American culture with an acute awareness of her familial ties to Germany. Wolff’s photographic essays reflect her intention to find and express the multicultural identity that was brought about by her grandfather’s relocation from Germany to Argentina at the end of WWII.
Stefanie’s artistic identity is defined by her continuous attempts to solidify her identity as a woman with a transcontinental familial background. Stefanie continuously questions the validity of her own personal interpretation of ‘self’ when juxtaposed against the backdrop of the mundane realities of everyday life. Her work does and will continue to experience change in its perpetuity as it is a direct result of her personal evolution as an artist, woman, and individual.
In spite of, or perhaps even directly because of, Wolff’s intensely personal quest to explore and define her identity, there is a cohesiveness to her work and even a serene and meditative quality to her latest photographic explorations. Ultimately, just as identity is the most subjective of topics, Wolff leaves much interpretation to the audience in her photo essays, allowing for the freedom of perspective to follow carefully constructed threads that weave together her images, following metaphors and similes, which relate in an honest and emotionally raw way, true to her weighty heritage.
