WISH
2014
black and white printer, 12500 A4-sheets,
Document shredder, 5kg counterweight,
Variable size
Happiness, money and eternal life.
Anything goes!
in cooperation with:
Lukas Lenherr
People all over the world have always created spaces and defined places to commemorate, to reflect, to make a wish for their neighbour or for themselves. Wishes find expression in the form of hanging pennants on Tibetan mountains, by means of flaming incense sticks in shrines or burning candles in churches, by means of attached wish lists on bamboo branches in Japan or by means of self-worn wish ribbons from Brazilian monasteries.
They contain hope for a change in reality or the achievement of a certain goal. Happiness, money and health. Unlike positive (good luck) wishes, however, they can also be curses or curses.
Now it is time to detach ourselves for a moment from the highest prosperity with, nevertheless, mostly trivial problems. In times of media overload, wishes are constantly suggested to us.
Promises of happiness and wealth are just as common as breaking news of tragedies and the fear and panic mongering of the media, corporations and governments.
We wish for a moment of personal retreat, of „healing isolation“, and to come to terms with ourselves.
Some time to formulate, send out and get rid of a wish. The installation is neither a temple, shrine nor place of pilgrimage. It does not criticise religions or beliefs. For one month, it is meant to inspire reflection, to inspire and to become a place of strength. In a lively way, secret desires mingle with others, isolation dissolves in the „mingling of desires“. A descent into clouds of conscious hope.
Exhibition view:
WISH
2014
black and white printer, 12500 A4-sheets,
Document shredder, 5kg counterweight,
Variable size
Happiness, money and eternal life.
Anything goes!
in cooperation with:
Lukas Lenherr
People all over the world have always created spaces and defined places to commemorate, to reflect, to make a wish for their neighbour or for themselves. Wishes find expression in the form of hanging pennants on Tibetan mountains, by means of flaming incense sticks in shrines or burning candles in churches, by means of attached wish lists on bamboo branches in Japan or by means of self-worn wish ribbons from Brazilian monasteries.
They contain hope for a change in reality or the achievement of a certain goal. Happiness, money and health. Unlike positive (good luck) wishes, however, they can also be curses or curses.
Now it is time to detach ourselves for a moment from the highest prosperity with, nevertheless, mostly trivial problems. In times of media overload, wishes are constantly suggested to us.
Promises of happiness and wealth are just as common as breaking news of tragedies and the fear and panic mongering of the media, corporations and governments.
We wish for a moment of personal retreat, of „healing isolation“, and to come to terms with ourselves.
Some time to formulate, send out and get rid of a wish. The installation is neither a temple, shrine nor place of pilgrimage. It does not criticise religions or beliefs. For one month, it is meant to inspire reflection, to inspire and to become a place of strength. In a lively way, secret desires mingle with others, isolation dissolves in the „mingling of desires“. A descent into clouds of conscious hope.
Exhibition view: