“fireplace”
textile installation, 255cm x 500cm, 2025
”Go into the forest, light a fire, and when the tree burns down, jump into it and burn yourself to ashes, and when you are burned, then you will atone and find a mother and a wife.” Kolberg 1964.
The work was created from threads sourced from a closed tailor’s workshop, fragments of old curtains, and soil extracted from a drainage ditch. The bonfire is a place of stories – a meeting of voices that did not make it into official histories. It is inspired by the whispered fairy tales of mothers and grandmothers, messages that have survived outside of archives – recorded in memory and body, often passed on by the fire, in the rhythm of breath and everyday gestures. These stories, absent from the canon, are often the most authentic tales of the past – full of tenderness, wisdom, and forms of resistance to a world based on domination. The mode of operation goes beyond anthropocentric and heteronormative patterns, entering into a dialogue with the superhuman – with the earth, its body, and its pulse.
