
He only feels the black and white of it, Berlin Wall 14-07-1973
- Publisher
- Mörel Books
- Year
- 2016
- ISBN
- 978-1-907071-54-6
- Specifications
- Paperback
17 x 24 cm
208 pages
500 copies numbered
Black-and-white photographs and artist text
The artist places a sequence of ruptured versions of a 1973 archive press-photograph at the centre: a photograph of a damaged section of the Berlin Wall. The image pictures East German military guards and border policemen carrying out repair works at the wall. Previously West German civilians had attacked the wall in response to the sound of guns fired at fleeing East Germans. The artist made multiple screen printed images of the archive photo, each image different from the other and in turn created a narrative of fragmented and reflective text that evolves around the figure of her father. The text highlights the constraints, pain and loss of identity that he experienced as a young man living in the dictatorial state of East Germany.