Strange Fruit

The objects in the individual showcases of the exhibition represent scenes emerging from memory coming forth to the present – they are fragments of an emotionally strong life story. Retrospectively, they are drawing attention to themselves again and again – in order to be made conscious, pictured, and materialized. A structural relief surface lacking a background, giving the impression of falling through space. A surrealistic object made of a withered trunk and agave leaves with a symbol of victim passivity. An object made of real animal skin that was however originally processed and distributed by the IKEA chain. Collapsing iron bars referring to an imaginary rescue from the escape of a world of fragile defencelessness. The heaviness of middle-of-the-night wakefulness. The distortion of a space whose ceiling is falling; representing at the same time the heterogeneity of the whole composed of dissimilar worlds and characterized by a broken midpoint. The scenes behind the glass symbolize the sight and perception of the real space as a projection of imaginary space – full of anxiety, loneliness, and irreconcilability while pretending functionality in interpersonal relationships. ‘Southern trees bear a strange fruit / Blood on the leaves and blood at the root…’ (Abel Meeropol, 1936)