wer liegt unter Goliath?, 2020

installation | textile | sound

created at the 8. Sommercampus Kalbe,

Germany

a burial shroud, embroidered during 15 days, is suspended in an empty room, in a semi-abandoned building. the threads, attached to the walls, are holding the cloth in the air, like a ghostly presence that waits for the disappeared are found, so the mourner can cover them in the final ritual of farewell.

a looping poem can be heard in the room:

mein Bruder wird vermisst

meine Schwester wird vermisst

mein Vater wird vermisst

meine Kinder werden vermisst

sie alle lagen unter dem riesigen Körper;

dem riesigen Kriegskörper

dem riesigen Konfliktkörper

dem riesigen Körpe derer, die nicht wollen,

dass die Wahrheit gesagt wird

ich warte immer noch auf meinem Bruder

ich warte immer noch auf meine Schwester

ich warte i

Near the town of Kalbe (Milde) there was a transmitter used for comunicating with submarines during World War II. For its construction they brought in French, Croats, Serbs and Russians, prisoners of war. During the construction some prisoners died and where buried there; later, by the end of war, when the troops from the United States were close to Kalbe, many of the prisoners were killed and bur