Was von damals übrig bleibt 1 and 2, 2006

Two part photo installation, light boxes with lentiqular printing technique, 485 x 251 cm (picture 1) and 359 x 251 cm (picture 2)

In a light box in the left stairway of the German Historical Museum in Berlin you can see a group of people standing in a beech forest. Their clothes and waponry seem archaic. In front of the people there are evidence markers, usually used in the film industry for positioning extras or at archaeological excavations to register the findings, stuck into the ground. What the picture shows varies depending on the point of view and the viewing direction. If you move your head in the direction of the museums collection the people in the picture disappear and just the evidence markers and a few unobstrusively scattered objects remain.

The substance and the composition of the picture placed in the right stairway refer directly to the first part of the series and vice versa. Not least picking the same cast, this time portraiing spartacists that seize a street in a large city, works as a reference to the first picutre. There is a concrete historical archetype for the street scene. Its a replicate of a photograph the documentary photographer Willy Römer took in 1919, restaged on the film set of an old Berlin street. Identical to the first picture the people disappear by walking by them. Again, just the evidence markers and a few objects remain as relics of the events.

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