Title
Augenblick, verweile doch!
Year
2021
Dimensions
300 × 200 × 65 cm
Material
Display freezer, photo frames
Photo Credit
Jens Staudte
Description
The promise is preservation. Cold slows decay, arrests movement, suspends time.
What is stored here was never meant to last. The moment of happiness is isolated, sealed, and kept available long after its context has vanished.
The gesture echoes care, yet it borders on futility. What survives is not the lived moment, but its residue. It is detached, standardized, interchangeable.
Between remembrance and stasis, the work asks whether time can be held without being emptied, and whether the desire to preserve the perfect instant ultimately freezes what it seeks to save.
