Wiedergutmachungwürdelosigkeiterbringungsprozess

Installation

2026

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What does it mean to commemorate something, and how do we decide what has value, and what does not?

 

This patchwork tapestry is composed of 131 objects found on the streets of Berlin, specifically those named after women. Each object is collected, documented, cleaned, and painted gold—a process of care and attention that recalls the often unrecognised dignity of labour embedded in gendered craft practices, such as transforming found scraps into patchwork quilts.

 

Despite the equality of men and women being written into the German constitution over 70 years ago, more than 90% of streets in Berlin are named after men. After a decade living in Berlin, and coinciding with an application for German citizenship, this project is an attempt to unravel the complexities of what it means to be German and to try to understand the deep rooted and often contradictory stories that have shaped its past. 

 

The process of cataloguing, collecting, and arranging these objects is both time-intensive and highly methodical, echoing the bureaucratic structures that shape everyday life in Germany. The title - Wiedergutmachungwürdelosigkeiterbringungsprozess - is a deliberately long and cumbersome German compound word that has been imagined to formalise (and thereby give importance to) the act of giving meaning to objects.

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