Landmark

Landmark is an ongoing series of temporary interventions using red-and-white barrier tape commonly associated with construction sites, accidents and areas under transformation.

By introducing this familiar material into specific architectural and urban contexts, the work creates temporary threshold conditions in which different histories, narratives and uses of space become visible. The tape functions less as a tool of exclusion than as a device for drawing attention to moments of transition, uncertainty and change.

Each iteration responds to a particular site. At Tempelhofer Feld in Berlin, the project reflected on the tensions between narratives of German reunification and the material remains of the demolished Palast der Republik. At Museum Koenig in Bonn, the intervention responded to the transformation of institutional spaces marked by both colonial collecting histories and the founding of post-war Germany. At Ned’s Point Fort in Ireland, the work engaged with questions of borders, territorial division and collective memory.

For the exhibition Exgirlfriend, the intervention shifted from geopolitical and institutional histories toward more personal forms of memory. Here, the tape marked a space suspended between presence and absence, suggesting that places, like relationships, continue to carry traces of what has disappeared. The exhibition became a reflection on transition itself, on those moments in which identities, histories and meanings remain unresolved.

Across its different iterations, Landmark investigates how architecture and public space become repositories of collective memory and how societies continuously negotiate the boundaries between preservation, disappearance and transformation.