Through October, 27th 2019
WANDELHALLE – AUF DEN SPUREN VON SEBALDS AUSTERLITZ
by Karen Stuke www.kommunalegalerie-berlin.de/ausstellungen
Austerlitz is one of literature’s most haunting meditation on time, loss and retrieval. It tells the story of Jacques Austerlitz, an architectural historian who, aged 5, was sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents in Wales. As he rediscovers his past, Austerlitz embarks on a journey through time and space, from mid-20th-century Mitte-Europa to contemporary England : the Prague exhibition halls from which his mother was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, the railway journey followed by the Kindertransport, his house in Mile End…
The resulting photographs, all taken with her handcrafted pinhole camera, are the work of light, time and memory. Stuke has also devised, in collaboration with Jules Wright, a large-scale installation that brings key elements from the book into a reality where the visitor is an active viewer and listener, delving into the darkest corners of Austerlitz’s memory, and of Europe’s recent history.” (Jules Wright)
