MAPPING THE MUSEUM, 2015, exhibition and catalog project at the Saarlandmuseum in Saarbrücken. Six artists were commissioned to interpret the shell of the new museum building in art and photographs.

“There is a place in the middle of the world / Where land, sea, and sky meet, the intersection / Of the three realms. / From there, wherever a place
/ Might be, however far away, it is under surveillance. / All that happens there is seen, and every word reaches / Those cavernous ears. / Rumor dwells there / In a house she chose on the highest point, / Fitted with innumerable entrances / And a thousand apertures with no doors / To close them. Night and day the house is open. / It is built of echoing bronze, and the whole place / Hums with sound, repeated words, and doubles / Of every sound it hears. / There is no quiet inside / No silence anywhere, but no clamor either, / Rather only the murmur of small voices, / Like the murmur of the sea heard from afar, / Or thunder as it dies away when Jupiter / Has made the dark clouds clash in the sky. / Crowds fill the hall, people come and go, / And rumors mingle in their thousands, the false / With the true. Confused reports flit about, / Filling idle ears with their talk, going everywhere / To tell what they’ve heard. Stories grow in size / As each new teller makes his own additions. / There lives Credulity, and rash Error, / Premature Joy and nervous Fears, / Sudden Sedition and unattributed Whispers. / Rumor herself observes all that is done / On land and sea and in the heavens / As she scrutinizes the entire world.”

FAMA: Ovid, Metamorphoses, book 12, lines 51– 80, Trans. Stanley Lombardo (New York: Hackett, 2010), pp. 326–27

2015, 150 x 100 cm

150 x 100 cm

each 150 x 100 cm

Each of three concertina-folded books reconstructs a single museum visit. Each page shows a view of the ceiling and the floor of the museum. The photographs were taken from a vantage point reached by a predetermined number of steps. The images are presented as a continuous sequence.

School Museum, 15,4 x 640,5 cm, Friedrichshafen, August 23, 2009
Zeppelin Museum, 15,4 x 640,5 cm, Friedrichshafen, August 22, 2009
Dornier Museum, 15,4 x 966 cm, Friedrichshafen, August 24, 2009