Is history ok?, 2023-21, Diverse productions, HD-Videos with sound, A4 prints from scanning electron microscope, hammered aluminum racks
Is history ok?
2023-21
Various productions, including videos with sound, scanning electron microscope prints and sculptures, exhibitions 2022, 2021 & publication 2023/22
The project performs recent health- and image-making practices onto ‘history’ using COVID-19 antigen self-tests to collect nasal cavity material from sculptures and monuments to examine it further throughout the pandemic years.
Performing the test procedure from the self-test package is asking the simple question – ok or not – onto history itself.
Under the electron microscope the historical monumentalism becomes obsolete within the biological spheres of nanometers.
The images bear witness of another level of existence and question human monumentalism approaches.