Installation // wool objects, text // dimensions variable // 2025
exhibition view / 320 x 300 x 40 cm / lapislazuli Karlsruhe, DE
schwarm (swarm) is a reflection on the nature of fear.
It is possible that fear is always present and only the subjects it occupies change. What stands out most from the landscape of thoughts is swarmed by it.
It is something that nests, that withdraws into soft, harmless cocoons and ferments in secret. There is a danger of ripening, of overgrowing, if the swarm is not taken apart and examined. For it is fear itself that must be watched and only sometimes that which it identifies as a threat.
Fear envelops what is acute and important, it blocks and protects at the same time. It depends on the perspective whether it suffocates or gives space.
The swarm of fear consists of many different fears that together appear enormous – and it is not afraid to grow.
The installation was adapted to the specific location. The dimensions and arrangement are therefore variable.
fear is a swarm
that sits down
on the highest points
of the landscape
it is a stroke that underlines
and underlines
what is important
fear is a swarm
that does not care
what it sits on
it only has to sit
and the swarm is big