Ge(ssenwiese), K(anigsberg) catalogs it slipped through the cracks

it slipped through the cracks

Chiara Pergola

They speak about the motivations and the many layers behind his work

The objective experience of reality constantly mingles with the subjective self as if a surface or a metaphorical skin was forming through the encounter of the origin of a memory and the consequent renarration of it

Serge Najjar writes with lines and plays with shadows

Ge(ssenwiese), K(anigsberg) catalogs it slipped through the cracksGessenwiese and Kanigsberg form part of a landscape that has been in a process of constant change since 1946. The overburden from the mining industry created radioactive spoil heaps and lakes that are being rehabilitated by various means: plants growing on Gessenwiese accumulate contaminants from the soil. Textiles are used to slowly dry out the lakes and bind the radioactive dust. The banked mounds are returned to the earth bit by bit. These