Ich War
Material research into Berlin's Palast der Republik & Fahrbereitschaft complex
Ich War, Ich Bin, Ich Werde Sein engages with overlapping architectural histories and the archive in order to examine the ways in which hegemony is enacted through visual symbology. In what has been dubbed 'the cultural cold war', realism confronts abstraction, form, or the lack thereof speaks to violence. The central component of my work was a booklet detailing the provenance of the steel support structure that once held the coat of arms of the German Democratic Republic to the facade of the contentious, and now demolished, Palast der Republik. The architectural form was recreated based on archival images and painted onto the wall of the exhibition space. On the floor below it, piled wheat references remnants of the original GDR icon (the hammer for workers, the compass for academics, and wheat for farmers).
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