umher
At a time when isolation is the new social maxim, we are repeatedly confronted with signage systems that establish this isolation. Boundaries are made visible, protective separations are created, and the installation "umher" makes use of this demarcation in order to free itself from it at the same time. As a setting for the project, the park stands as an isolated piece of nature that breaks through the cityscape, with its single path leading one through the designed landscape. As one follows the path, a fence-like element unobtrusively emerges from the ground, growing higher with each step and arching away from the path, losing height and disappearing into the ground as discreetly as it appeared, leaving a clearing as an open end. The installation tempts the visitor to leave the path and to venture further into nature, away from the intended perspective of the path.This is done by a construction that even takes the visitor's hand by the handrail - if they wish - and leads them to an open meadow that offers and keeps open all possibilities of decision without further markings. The fact that this wayfinding system opens up in the midst of another offers the interactor a process of negotiation with himself, in which he can decide whether and how to interact with the installation: Do I take the alternative path? Do I lean in for a moment to linger? Do I bypass it and follow the path?
Exhibition View:
“O! Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin”, Gustavgarten Bad Homburg, 2021
after 3 months
new path
