Carboniferous

Description

An installative engagement with hard coal as a fuel, as a fossil, as an object of desire, as a destructive reality.

Energy sources are not neutral materials. Each brings its own practices and its own aesthetics. Few materials have shaped our way of life as strongly as fossil fuels.

Motifs arrange themselves on a tiled stove, showing different aspects of hard coal. From fossils from the time of the Carboniferous forests to symbols of industrial culture, through to the drill heads and bucket-wheel excavators that clear entire swathes of land today. Against the background of the steadily growing consumption of hard coal, the question arises as to what associations and emotions we connect with it.

The tiled stove functions as an object that connects nostalgia for an idealized past with the consumption of fuels. It is typical of Berlin and, in contrast to the industrial motifs, recalls a cozy home.