“Reste von Resten” explores discarded objects that have escaped the circulatory system of production and recycling, caught between dying and living a second life in a Berlin wasteland.  The leftovers allow a moment of reflection on worthlessness and quick replacement in a society so dominated by consumerism.
In these micro-landscapes, the useless is an element of dissidence capable of generating new interpretations, but also redolent of new chances: absorbed by wild nature, the objects become the fresh support of life in a space where life was not expected, in a sort of unscheduled and unstructured process of organic integration into the landscape.
My intention is to capture the tension between the signs of brutality that the leftover possesses, and its new, unpredictable existence.
The title of the project takes inspiration from one of the first objects I encountered on one of my field trips in the Berlin wasteland, which was, paradoxically, a shredded pamphlet about how to include and use rubbish in art.