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Trümmerfrauen
(Rubble Women)
2005
4:00 loop

MovingImage

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20" LCD monitor, DVD player, sound, existing brick wall, shovel, pick and dirt


BRICK is a miniscule insertion into existing architectural space fashioned from National Archives U.S. Army documentary footage of the Rubble Women (Trümmerfrauen) who cleared out bombed out Berlin after World War II brick by brick. This work examines aftermath(s) and interactions with the unknowable and the unfathomable that become intimately commonplace. BRICK is about our present day disconnect from the physical realities of aerial bombing, the continual and contemporary surgical eradication of people, places and objects carried out far from home at our comfortably blind behest.

(for Charles Simmonds and W.G. Sebald)


Originally fabricated for the Brewery project
April 23rd - May 21st, 2005
Los Angeles

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