Hotel de l’Europe (Documents)

Wall frottage  Oil on paper, 2021 In 1934, painter Georg Jung became manager – family business – of the Hotel de l’Europe. After Austria’s annexation to the National Socialist Regime, the political atmosphere in Salzburg forced Jung to leave the hotel behind and go to Vienna. The hotel was later attacked, sold and, finally, demolished. 

A white wall

This project started with an empty and white room. A temporary living space that felt pretty much like a gallery, so to say hygienic. To turn that space a dash homelier I decided to bring along any branch, stone, seed that I would find sitting lonely while I walked down the streets of this strangely

Ministère des rêves

Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. – Langston Hughes The Ministry of Dreams (Ministère des rêves) is an intervention/installation at the University of Cheikh Anta Diop located in Dakar, Senegal. It is a call to dreams, a built passage to find playfulness and dreaminess in a

Material history of the university

Can we rely on what objects have to tell us? Which (hi)stories are objects telling us? Which is the potency and the agency of objects? This photographic series ponders upon the idea of material history. It is a collection of objects found at the street known as “couloir de la mort” (death row) located in

Handle with care

Mirror installation, 2017 Lagos, Nigeria My body itself is a mosaic of heritages; my mouth, my hair, my skin color; not to say the language with which I express myself and my believes. We are thrown into the world with an inheritance and this inheritance is even more complex for the colonized. Franz Fanon insists

Lux mea spes

Numerous students living at the student houses from the Cheikh Anta Diop university in Dakar, Senegal; go out every night to study under the street lights of the campus boulevard. Every night they go to memorize and rehearse words; words meaningful to their future practices. Jacques Derrida understands the university profession – professors – to

Foggy situation

Love letters for free

“I do not understand love stories”, was the starting point of an investigation about romantic love; followed by an act of public writing. During three months I worked as a scrivener at the Santo Domingo public square in Mexico City. My scrivener duty was to write love letters, for free.

Colonialism

“The policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically:” Oxford Dictionary, 2015

Society (Social positions)

“The aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community.”  Concise Oxford American Dictionary, 2014.