Mneme XXV: Traum [Dream]

This installation in Düsseldorf encircled the entire gallery with large text offering advice to travelers; smaller English and German statements about notions of home and travel were overlaid. These ranged from the Odyssey to nineteenth century arguments for seizing Yosemite from native peoples to Hansel and Gretel snacking on the witch’s house. The centerpiece was a rug and skewed bed of translucent maps of my home town and Düsseldorf, respectively, with their central rivers aligned. The bed was animated with flickering light (suggesting the bed as hearth), and illuminated the gallery at night, proposing that home becomes where one lays one’s head.