washed away

The work combines three elements: The castle wall, as a symbol of security and protection, but also of isolation and demarcation; the soap, as a symbol of purification and as an everyday object not only during the pandemic; and temporality, in the form of bursting soap bubbles, which make transience and uncertainty tangible. 

The wall undergoes an "act of cleansing" through the work. An attempt is made to wash away what cannot really be washed away - danger, insecurity, history in the form of sediment. We see the city wall, which encloses the innermost part of the city, as the skin of the social body, on which the individual experience of the pandemic becomes collectively visible. On a biochemical level, soap creates a distance between the skin and the virus, making it washable. Washing is therefore a ritual of protection and safety. And finally, temporality becomes visible in the form of ephemeral soap bubbles. They leave hardly any traces, are enchanting and at the same time unpredictable. A pandemic whose residue is ephemeral? What comes after the bubbles burst? Translated with DeepL.com (free version)