Intervention in the Museum Space of Ruhr University Bochum
The work is conceived as a gesture toward the museum structure, in which ancient heads—symbols of the “origin” of European culture—rest on concrete pedestals, weighted down by centuries of institutional and ideological stability. By covering these pedestals with bubble wrap—a material associated with protection, transport, and temporary storage—the concrete loses its visibility and thus its authority: The monument becomes an object of packaging, the support an illusion. The heads, once resting on massive foundations, now appear to balance on fragile shells of air and light, held in place by tape and chance.
The intervention references the visual thinking of Max Imdahl, whose theory emphasizes not so much the depicted object as the act of seeing itself. Seeing here becomes an interpretive process: The viewer finds themselves in a situation where the familiar logic of support and weight is suspended, and visual certainty is replaced by reflection and transparency.
“Without Halt” is both a physical intervention and an optical and conceptual experiment. It presents the museum not as a place of peace and preservation, but as a space of continuous reflection – in which the past balances on the threshold of disappearance.
