WONDER

»Let’s enter the former living room of a female dervish. There they stand, the pilgrims, with their bodies. And plead. And hope.
The body is a thread – and who turns the screws, and of what? Is it true that ›nobody ever regretted a workout‹? Is there really no ›change in the presence of comfort‹?
The body is a miracle – and examines them; a priest at the scene of a Marian apparition, bent over the X-ray image of a tumour that has disappeared by now.
The body is a wound – it opens and closes; the body is a reed, bend and soaked and humiliated by the flood but that nevertheless stand up tall again cheerfully once the flood eases. So it is passed down to us by Elizabeth of Hungary, marked by welts. She is not the only dissident saint praised here.
WONDER is a meditation on deviant tendencies and the fragmentary, on illness and solace, on rituals and faith – on the big something, on me, on us.« (Enis Maci)

»The fact that this work does not descend into a culturally pessimistic tantrum is due to Maci's successful play with ambivalences. In her work, the body is both a possibility for self-empowerment and an object. It combines power and powerlessness. ... The author reacts to the complexity of the world with writing that consistently eludes a firm grasp. One feels weightless, at times disoriented. But it is precisely this disorientation that holds the potential for free thinking.« Björn Hayer, ZEIT ONLINE