im Rahmen von Miro Platform “Together~Valuable!”
Artist Residency
Gwangju, Südkorea
5.1 Surround Sound Installation at Miro Center Result Exhibition
November 2020
Ausschnitt (Passwort:”2″)
Sound object, Kunstverein Neukölln, Berlin, group exhibition “10 Jahre”
A brand logo as an inverted soot imprint on untreated cotton – material and motif converge. The canvas vibrates when activated, transferring its oscillations into the surrounding space: the starting and acceleration of a diesel engine. “Hi Volks…” – what at first reads as a friendly greeting reveals itself as a phonetic game: the salutation becomes an accusation, the brand becomes the motif. The hidden trigger behind the signature points to the mechanisms of concealment that characterised the events of 2015. What is made visible here is not only the soot as a sign of material emission, but also the trace of a betrayal of trust that inscribed itself, as “Dieselgate”, deep into the collective memory of a decade. A work about the relationship between surface and deception, between sign and material reality.