Life tends to come and go, that’s ok as long as you know (2011)
Installation views at KWADRAT, Berlin. Sculptural installation and sculptures in perspex boxes: Paper, cardboard, foam core, adhesives, spray paint. 1:1 scale models, dimensions variable. Photos: Bernhard Volkwein.
’Life tends to come and go, that’s ok as long as you know’ is a sculptural installation that reflects on the shifting space of Berlin as traces of its past disappear through gentrification. As streets, abandoned sites and construction sites are cleaned up, so too are layers of detritus that once accumulated in forgotten corners and created a commentary of the city. ‘Life tends to come and go, that’s ok as long as you know’ reflects on this transition, as the surface of Berlin reproduces its history without these peripheral details. In the installation, paper and foam core reproductions of trash reflect on their own passing, motioning to notice the details in the streets outside the gallery as they shift and change.