For her exhi­bi­ti­on in the Old Synagogue, Beate Haupt, an artist who lives and works in Braunschweig and was born in Wolfenbüttel in 1966, has crea­ted a series of works entit­led Encounter with Moses. It deve­lo­ped from an image that had been in her mind for years and that had ori­gi­na­ted while swim­ming in the Mediterranean: a young man with long hair stan­ding in water. A slight chest blur­red the clear attri­bu­ti­on to gen­der. A modern man, yet as if from an old pain­ting, glis­tening, enve­lo­ped in the pale light pur­ple of the water. She wants to show this man, a Moses of today, strong and weak at the same time, strugg­ling with the water, loo­king around fear­ful­ly, stri­ding proud­ly into the floods, blo­wing the water away, swim­ming, drif­ting. Beate Haupt deli­bera­te­ly lea­ves no room for the bibli­cal sto­ry of par­ting the waters and wal­king through them. She wants to show a more ever­y­day sto­ry – as it hap­pens today, all over the world.