On the recollection and preservation of stones
Series of interventions during a residency at lichtenberg studios, Berlin
2025
Lichtenberg studios is located above the local museum, a place that promotes Lichtenberg’s history.
Staying there, I became intrigued by Lichtenberg’s “Erinnerungskultur”: the museum as well as all the memorial sites in the borough, like “Rummelsburg Gedenkort”, give the past a very prominent place in the present.
Evidently Berlin bears a complex past that is important to remember, but at the same time smaller histories like the invention of the egg slicer also have a place in the Lichtenberg museum.
Around that time, while wandering around Berlin’s Mitte, I stumbled upon the questionable practice of selling pieces of the Berlin wall preserved in resin as a souvenir.
This gave me the idea to collect and preserve random pieces of pavement from Lichtenberg for later times.
For future remembrance of uneventful days and unremarkable streets, I redistributed these artefacts in clean newly built gentrified areas to break with the surroundings.
