Wolfgang Oelze

2026, UHD video, no sound, 28 minutes

From a subjective perspective, the slow movement of the camera reveals the journey from the edge of a rural settlement to a long-abandoned village that has been reclaimed by the forest. The movement is almost hesitant. It is less a walk than a transition — from the present to a layer in which history lies buried. Rather than seeking out the obvious, the camera captures the atmospheric, such as the contours in the twilight and the way the vegetation frames a hypnotic vanishing point on the horizon, which seems to give the path direction. This journey signifies a retreat into the forest and the uncertainties of memory and repression.

See exhibition views from the exhibition Trap, 2025, Roger Loewig House – Museum and Memorial.