Soap Collection, Installation, Photography, Object, Galleries: Tristesse De Luxe, Berlin-Weekly, Tashkeel, Rewaq, 2007-2018
The true collector, so Walter Benjamin, must lift the subject of its contexts of meaning, in order to reach an incomparable view of the subject matter - the view of the grand physiognomist. And so it is in each of its objects the world present. But it fades the hope of a completeness of things. Therefore, the collector is also a allegorist, no longer considered on an uncanny entirely, but only to the mystery of many interconnected things.
For the german philosopher Ernst Jünger the disaster is a condition of collecting: in the loss of cultural heritage the sense is refining for this, the disappearance is sharpen the perception of their inherent order. Through debris and fires holds exercise an illuminating principle. Where not destruction, there is no collection.
