an attempt to build a dry stone wall  
ein versuch eine mauer zu bauen 

wall, digital print on organic fiber, curtain rail, 
wood
approx. 360 x 220 cm
2020

 

An attempt to build a dry stone wall refers to the contrast between the image represented and the material on which the image appears. After having built a stone wall over the course of one week, its weight is represented in a thin, almost transparent material, linking it to forms of representation as carriers of apparent histories. An old stone wall, which offers insight into the site’s history, also appears as an overgrown part of the present landscape. The technique of dry masonry requires no addition of material beyond what is found on-site. The wall appears both as a cartographic gesture and as an architectural structure that enables agriculture in steep terrain. By literally rebuilding on the ruins of a decayed wall, where the intersection of nature and culture becomes blurred, the work refers to the archaeological memory of the river valley as a site of co-existence, dependency, and control.

 

 

 

Exhibition view at Drago More, Rijeka, Croatia: Mapping the Cartographic: Contemporary Approaches to Planetarization, 20.01. –18.02.2022