IN LOVING MEMORY

In Loving Memory, laser print on found tile and steel, 35 x 24 x 80 cm, 2024.

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Observing ‘progress’ at the expense of erasure and the parallel between construction sites and gravesites. The tile, holding a print of a borrow pit resembling a coffin, was salvaged from a demolished residential building in Neukölln. Months later, after the site was cleared and construction began, the steel legs were found in the same location. Two materials, generations apart, come together to tell the story of what once was and is to come. Nowadays, we are witnessing a kind of “reverse migration” and modern-day colonization, in which gentrification, driven by rising rents and foreign investments, displaces and leads us to a silent yet widespread cultural death. In Loving Memory, contemplates death as a collapse, from vitality to emptiness, and the sentiment of decay experienced when homes of origin are lost to box developments. Construction sites and gravesites, building and destruction, life and death give into one another, shapeshifting, until they become ultimately undistinguishable, marking the erasure of our collective memory and history.