Bodenmomente

 

2016, synthetic resin, blue pigment, natural stone, muscovite

4 parts, each 100 x 100 x 10 cm

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Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten, Marl

 

On the 4th level (in 886 m depth) of one of the last coal mines in the Ruhrgebiet significant areas of the floor were cast. 

The chosen areas show left-overs from human mining work as well as signs of geological processes: tracks, chains, grids, screws, plastic rubbish and other debris are continuously covered by carbon dust, rust, crystallized saline and growing stalagmites.

Two weeks after the project was concluded the coal mine, Zeche Auguste Victoria, was closed down. The four casts therefore are the last sculptural documents made in one of the last coal mines of West Germany.