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IN MEMORIAM
Installation in the public space
Photographies, texts (obituaries) and objects, 2011


Obituary: commented notice, especially in a newspaper, of a person's death, often with a short account of their life.


The project

The starting point is the picture of a grave. Honoring the name and dates of birth and death on it, the artist makes up a charachter and writes their obituary. An object that “belonged” to the fictional figure completes the installation, with the aim of providing record of it´s real existence.

The project runs between reality and fiction, using the characteristics of the resources on wich it´s been done. On one side, the still current idea of Photography as a media of document real events: the first impresion is to think that the grave exists. On the other hand, the style in which an obituary is written: it is a notice, it appears in the newspapers: it must be real. In addition, the object provides another “proof” of the character´s existence: if this person owed something, he/she existed.

“In Memoriam” begins where everything else finishes. The image of a grave refers to the end of a life-story. The project inverts this, using the photo as the starting point of the new story.

Intervention in Volkspark Hasenheide, Berlin, 2011

For the exhibition “In front of me, behind me, next to me...”, the project was presented as an installation in the park Hasenheide. In this case, working with the context of a public park, the character was an animal, instead of a person, honoring one of the uses of the space, that is burying pets, even if it was not conceived for it.


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