Berlin Weekly, Berlin
May 18—June 2, 2014
collaborative work with Nina Schuiki
As a common additive to food, salt occurs in nature as residual process of evaporation. Where the jagged edges of a layer of salt leave a visualization of water’s disappearance into vapor, the palimpsest is also a subtle process of preservation and a construction of historical memory.
The Berliner Volksküche was located on Linienstraße during the late 19th to early 20th century, founded not only as a means to provide food and sustenance to those in need but also support the role of women during war. Its traces are remembered here as a layer added to the space of Linienstraße 160. The architecture serves thus as a frame for outlining another body of physical processes, both corporeal and temporal.