HAUS DER GESCHICHTEN (HOUSE OF STORIES)

Installation, performance
Sennhof-Kyburg, Switzerland. 2020
Group exhibition “In Transition: Kunst in der letzten Baumwollspinnerei der Schweiz”
Curated by sechseinhalb,
in Kooperation mit Oxyd, Lokal 14 und us. – previously TART Zürich

Steel cable, cord, table, stool. Drawings: pigment ink touch liner and watercolor on acid-free paper.
Installation: 450 x 480 x 350 cm.
Drawings: each 21x14.8 cm

The installation shows 192 cards with the 192 names of the employees who worked in the spinning mill at the time of its closure in 2014. The artist sent a personal letter to each of the ex-workers asking them to send back a story about their time working in the factory. Each memory received is then interpreted as a drawing, as a live performance during the exhibition.