Installation, 2017-2020, various materials, dimensions variable
The individual stele in the series, and their number can be extended at will, first bring to mind drill cores from scientific drive samplers as are used in geological research into the Earth’s history. While scientific cores tend to be composed of stone, earth or ice, on closer inspection what we have here is a broad array of organic material (earth, stone, sand) that has been bonded with epoxy to form a fixed and immutable substance. Moreover, in many places synthetic materials such as carbon fibers, concrete, cables, or pure epoxy have been added to the original organic and mineral materials. Since the piece offers a way of reading scientific drilling cores that offers information about the history of the world, we can discern a temporal level running through the series. These associations give rise to a narrative in which the past, present and future are evoked and interwoven.
  • Vertical Memory
    Installation view: Data, Galerie Gisela Clement, Bonn, 2018

  • plastic seeds
    2020, concrete, reinforcing iron, construction waste, epoxy resin, pigment, expanded metal, cable, soil, PVC, roots, aluminium, copper, dust, 238 x 8 x 9cm (left)

  • 1956 (MI)
    2018, steel, concrete, reinforcing iron, aluminium, 238 x 8 x 9 cm

  • Green Tides in the Yellow Sea
    2020, crushed stone, epoxy resin, pigment, aluminium, 238 x 8 x 9 cm

  • NOT YET TITLED
    2018, epoxy resin, pigment, expanded metal, carbon fabric, dust, cables, copper, aluminium, PVC, roots, soil, bark, wood fibres, 200 x 8 x 9 cm

  • Ewiges Haus
    2020, concrete, reinforcing iron, construction waste, epoxy resin, pigment, PVC, aluminium, 200 x 8 x 9 cm

  • NOT YET TITLED
    2018, red sand, epoxy resin, aluminium, 200 x 8 x 9 cm

  • Kalter Apparat
    2018, epoxy resin, pigment, expanded metal, carbon fabric, dust, cables, copper, aluminium, PVC, roots, soil, bark, wood fibres, fertiliser, 200 x 8 x 9 cm

  • Tar Island
    2020, sand, epoxy resin, pigment, aluminium, 200 x 8 x 9 cm

  • NOT YET TITLED
    2017, concrete, reinforcing iron, construction waste, epoxy resin, pigment, aluminium, 200 x 8 x 9 cm

  • NOT YET TITLED
    2017, brick sand, pebbles, epoxy resin, aluminium, 200 x 8 x 9 cm

  • NOT YET TITLED
    2017, crushed stone, epoxy resin, pigment, aluminium, 200 x 8 x 9 cm

  • NOT YET TITLED
    2017, soil, epoxy resin, cables, cooper, aluminium, 200 x 8 x 9 cm

  • NOT YET TITLED
    2018, red sand, concrete, epoxy resin, aluminium, 200 x 8 x 9 cm

  • NOT YET TITLED
    2017, concrete, pigment, aluminium, 200 x 8 x 9 cm