16.02.2012 - 18.02.2012

The occasion is not joyful ::::
but extremely relevant and formative for the perception of the hamburg citizens of their own city and their social and political role .....

the 50th anniversary of the North Sea flood of 1962 in hamburg :::

rough historical documents are projected on a complex pattern of 318 whitewashed sand sacks. This fragments the images exactly like the fragmentary pieces in our memories, if we do not know how they are related or if we were not directly part of the whole .... but with a little distance they appear readable again composed of the network of individual destinies and the importance of history and present.

..... sure the work does not aim to rip open old wounds or to relativize the fates ...... but should address what we supress all the time :::: the pain of others, the limited predictability of natural laws, the problem of super constellations that defy any statistics .......