In a Room Before Our Time
2020
Installation (dimensions variable)
Material: Cardboard, weed control fabric, mosquito net, hammock, sand, tent pegs, wood, caster wheels, silicone, dog excrement, flower pot saucers, flashlight, water, soap, lighter gas, matches, animal skulls, pine cones, stones, coloured pencil, artificial plants, electric tealights, cushions, blanket, ambient lights, speakers, screen
"In einem Raum vor unserer Zeit" (In a Room Before Our Time) explores how ideas of "nature" are culturally shaped, staged, and consumed.
The installation, resembling a campsite, stages an artificial landscape filled with subtle contradictions: a soap-and-fire performance, silicone "stones" embedding dog excrement, a paper tent with forest scent, and a hammock for "four-legged walking."
Through these elements, the work reflects on how nature is aestheticized, domesticated, and turned into spectacle — a place of longing and projection, but also of discomfort and estrangement.
Rather than moralizing, the installation invites viewers to reflect on their own desires and contradictions in encountering the natural world.
Rather than moralizing, the installation invites viewers to reflect on their own desires and contradictions in encountering the natural world.
