Handkerchief
This work highlights a key moment in the project "Meet The Memory Person." Just as a handkerchief is pulled from a pocket, this project shares a personal memory anchored in the body and makes it public. The bronze sculpture represents a textile shell into which various bodies can be projected. Similarly, "Meet The Memory Person" does not focus solely on a single, often privileged individual. Instead, it promotes the exchange of knowledge and memories among diverse audiences.
The textile assembles fragments of Munich's exile and migration history, which become tangible through clothing, the clothing industry, and media ephemera printed on the textile. The (historic) use of handkerchiefs may be associated with the capture of the respective zeitgeist as a medium for publishing historic events, with tears, illnesses, stories, flirtations, and farewells, revealing moments of care and narratives connected to the body often overlooked in monuments.
Handkerchief
2024
Patinated bronze; print on fabric, chicken wire, metal
40 x 45 x 15 cm; 205 x 105 x 3 cm
Exhibited at Habibi Kiosk, Kammerspiele Munich as part of the show Global Munich. In perspective 21.6. - 29.6.2024
Catalog in German and English, p. 30 - 35
History is what we carry with us by Luísa Telles
Supported by Käte Hamburger Kolleg global dis:connect Munich and Kammerspiele, Munich.
Photo credit: Michael Mönnich, Florian Laufhütte
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