de construction

2020 – ongoing

Jesenwang rubble dump, 9.00 am

The remains of formerly useful recyclables are carefully sorted. The excavator grips them gently and carries them to the grave under an overcast sky. And my heart is weeping because it realises that great love, joy and eagerness lie buried here.

At the parental home, 2.00 pm

The house resembles an archaeological excavation site. Old wall papers are being stripped away, pipes and cables exposed, repaired and recovered layer by layer. I know every wall, every corner of every room.

On the other side of the street, 6.00 am

The house is completely still. A large hole gapes at its side, revealing the former living rooms. Torn out bricks and broken tiles cover the ground. Is it still alive or already fallen into pieces? Almost gone.

Freiham construction site, 5.00 pm

Uniformly, a new residential neighbourhood is growing from the ground. It's called "the new entrance to the city". The skeletons of houses rise into the sky, the smell of fresh concrete. Wide roads lead to nowhere and divide the area into an organised grid. Accommodation containers for construction workers are piled up. Here and there I hear them working on this Sunday afternoon.

De construction deals with the construction and deconstruction of architecture and living space, the cycle of restoration, demolition, new construction and the memories that

remain. The work will be first shown in an artist publication with a collection of documentary photographs in digital and risographic printing. Nine loose interleaved sheets that can be disassembled, rearranged and expanded. This documentary project is ongoing. Group portraits of and interviews with (de)construction workers around Munich as well as various formats of exhibitions are planned.