In June 2023, Vienna's BURN-IN Gallery invites art and literature lovers to the subtle exhibition Flowers Don't Bleed. Ellen Semen's independent paintings meet Kirstin Breitenfellner's evocative poems. This successful symbiosis of images and words creates a provocative atmosphere around the themes of war and mortality in the atypical art spaces. For Breitenfellner, war and the finite nature of human life are among its "mortality weights". "But death is also a constituent of life. It unites people by simultaneously dividing them, just like war. Death, too, drives humanity forward through the fear it gives birth to. War is the elixir of death. But death is also the elixir of life. A paradox," says Breitenfellner about her poems.