Hannah Zenger

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Steingießerei
2022

This work is based on a cast of the nearly fossilized wooden floor of a former workshop, marked by decades of heavy labor, tool traces, and wear. The surface tells a story — usage is inscribed into it. During my studio residency at this site, I created a “skin” of the floor using latex and gauze, peeling it away and hanging the three-part negative vertically in the space.

By suspending these floor impressions at eye level, a surprising shift occurs: the overlooked becomes visible. The golden translucence of the latex lends the work a near-sacral quality, allowing for a present-day encounter with the history embedded in the ground.

"Rooms are shells, they are skins. Peel off one skin after the other, discard it: the repressed, the neglected, the wasted, the lost, the sunken, the flattened, the desolate, the reversed, the diluted, the forgotten, the persecuted, the wounded." Heidi Bucher

Category
installation

Steingießerei, 2022
three-part latex cast of the historic end-grain wood floor of the former stone foundry at Kulturpark Dettinger, Plochingen
Latex, gauze, steel
each 250 x 100 cm

2022: On Earth, Kulturpark Dettinger, Plochingen