Cornelia Schleime, Marianne Berenhaut, Christo, Rosemarie Trockel, Latifa Echakhch

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Text by Marco Navarro

When in Berlin was still a divided city, Christo and Jeanne-Claude dreamed of wrapping the Reichstag. An action that was finally realized in the reunified capital in 1995, it is regarded as a symbol of democratic participation.

The engagement with political control and individual freedom is also found in Cornelia Schleime's self-portraits Auf weitere gute Zusammenarbeit (1993). Based in her Stasi files, the artist confronts the surveillance in the GDR.

Rosemarie Trockel's Untitled (Schizopullover) (1988) plays with the tension between individuality and uniformity. The double collar forces coexistence with one's own mirror image.

The motif of veiled or divided presence is also found in Latifa Echakhch's Screen Shot M.M. (2015). Her screen-like sculpture, into which she integrated her own clothing, marks a spatial boundary while also recalling traces of past events.

This fragility of memory is also palpable in Marianne Berenhaut's Abonné absent (2006). Found objects, including a telephone receiver, hint at a sudden silence. Without context, it remains unclear what the interrupted conversation was about - an echo of personal and collective losses.