Angelika Elsa Schindler
  born 1961 in Bartenstein, Germany, lives and works in Berlin

As fundamental material for her photo installation "Fratelli e Sorelle" (2000),A. Elsa Schindler chooses devotional objects and popular small Catholic holypictures.The cut-out pictures of female martyrs and saints, in whoseglances rapture and humble devotion both seem to be equally expressed, aswell as the "heart of Jesus symbolism", conjure up a presence of thephysical, all of which refers to