Sound installation by Jakob Weingartner with the podcasts “Erzähl doch mal” in Berlin 2023

Can we see ourselves reflected in surfaces, structures and textures? Dorothee Krings (Berlin) has been, and continues to be, a photographer, amongst many other things. In recent years, she has organised private ‘trauma salons’, where participants could share personal perspectives on their own histories, their wounds and how they cope with them. For her, macro photography is an imaging technique that visually reveals what seems impossible: the deeper layers of time. Her images speak of the fragility of our world and, by extension, of our own vulnerability.

“There are people who ask why so many displaced people come to Medellín. Where else would they go?” – Due to armed conflicts, drug trafficking and traumatic experiences of violence – often following the murder of their relatives – many Colombian families are forced to leave their homes and land and make a fresh start as “landless” people in the major cities. – The Museo Casa de la Memoria (House of Memory) in Medellín, Colombia, focuses on the “participatory construction of memory through community curators” and addresses traumatic experiences in a completely new way. LINK