Camouflage

Camouflage is a temporary site-specific intervention installed on a series of advertising billboards along Berlin's Wilhelmstraße, the former centre of the Nazi government administration. The intervention marked the site of the Pelzwarenfabrik Ehrlich, a factory that produced leather components for SS uniforms during the Second World War. The factory was demolished decades ago, and no visible trace of it remains.

Instead of displaying advertisements, the billboards revealed the wooden support structure normally concealed behind commercial posters. Using the existing advertising infrastructure and lighting, the intervention created a temporary visual silence within the streetscape, allowing the absence of the factory to become perceptible once again.

Based on archival research into the forced labourers employed at the site, the project proposed the disappearance of the image itself as a temporary memorial.