Lost & Found
2023
Group exhibition at GU11, Cologne
curated by Goeben Berlin
Behmstr.11_Questions never known, 2023
Backpack, waterbottles, powercables, t-shirt, jeans, sweatshirt, broken sunglasses, chains, watches, steel, aluminum, zippers, hooks, lock, magnets, foam, layers of fabric, plastic bag, painkillers
The portrayal of an abandoned backpack, suspended in a state of disintegration explores the sense of loss. The loss of an object is, in essence, the loss of certainty. It creates a void, an absence of knowledge, leaving us with fragments of recollection. What can we truly remember? Colors, textures, a scent - these details fade while uncertainty lingers.
As the hooks, zippers, soft paddings and straps of the backpack come apart and its inner workings unravel, we are confronted with the unsettling truth that the passage of time erases much of what we try to hold on to.