fireplace
textile, 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.
