Wüstung
2026, UHD video, no sound, 28 minutes
From a subjective perspective, slow camera movement reveals the journey from the boundary of today’s rural settlement to a ruined village long since 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 sedimented. Rather than seeking out the obvious, the camera captures the atmospheric: the contours in the twilight and the vegetative framing of a hypnotic vanishing point on the horizon that seems to give the path direction. It is a retreat — not only into the forest, but also into the uncertainties of memory and repression.
See exhibition views from the exhibition Trap, 2025, Roger Loewig House – Museum and Memorial.