FRAGMENTS

In my series "FRAGMENTS," I explore the concept of values—their meanings, fractures, and transformations within societal discourse.

In 2018, during an artist residency in Soest, I received an old crate filled with fragments of church windows—remnants of a past narrative, shattered testimonies of a once-intact world. Seeing these shards immediately triggered an association in my mind: the slogan of a PEGIDA demonstration in Dresden—"For the Christian values of Europe." But instead of ideals, all I saw were fragments, something broken and lost. My first thought was: "This is all that remains of those values."

From these shattered windows, I created a monumental sculpture that encapsulates the contradictions of our time. The delicate, vibrantly colored glass—a symbol of spirituality, light, and hope—stands in stark contrast to the brutal rawness of reinforced concrete that surrounds it. Once part of harmonious imagery, these fragments have now been reassembled into a new context—marked by fractures, yet not entirely destroyed.

This work is more than just a reflection on material remnants—it is a dystopian vision of our present, a mirror of societal tensions where the past collides with the present. Which values remain intact? What has been preserved, and what has been lost? And how do we piece together the fragments of our time?