2022, Travertine panel, bronze letters
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There seems to be an urge in mankind to correct traces of the past in order to document necessary distances. This urge concerns symbols and writings of statutory or other institutional representations from the past, whose zeitgeist, and especially its views of mankind and the world, one thrives to overcome.
A radical gesture of purification may intend to break the assumed power of obsolete symbols and iconographies. But what if only the traces and scars of "the purification" remain afterwards, while what has been removed has been devoured and forgotten by time. It does not take much more than the legend of a violent destruction to give birth to a myth.