Berlin Intervention

Seeking a site where the trace of human is present; the absence of them loud, I ventured to Berlin, where I located an abandoned historic Soviet site in Wünsdorf, Brandenberg.

I introduced to the site an anonymous human form and made objects to evoke visual bodily disorientation and a new way of appropriating the space. I initiated formal frankness with a square, a symbol of a void through the use of black, heaviness with a rock, and the visual disorientation with an oblique. The social trajectories of the space are both of refuge and hostility. The abandonment of the site is in itself a concept representing without a future, silent space, and an abyss that slows time. The deterioration and entropy of the location remove visible markers that allowed an observer to direct their attention to what comes first and what later. The only reliable mind/body connection becomes the black objects themselves which began as obscure. Even the human body representation grows lost in the visual field, eventually not responding in relationship with the abandonment of the site.

I have endeavoured to create a familiarity and connection with a replica of the ‘Myth of Sisyphus’ through the repetitive heavy burdens of society and the meaning of life. I am also appropriating with Soviet Union beliefs at that time. I then explore the concept of protection and camouflage, a common idea during warfare, with a notion of burial. The objects, as a result, are grounding and uniting of an alternative perception which will differ with each viewer as to what meaning is behind their use.