Haunted

Charon was conceived for the competition The Middle in Nowhere as a temporary memorial at Weberwiese station in Berlin.

The installation commemorates the 108 people who lost their lives during the bombing of the station in 1945. Rather than introducing a permanent monument, it temporarily returns the victims' names, dates and places of birth to the site where they died.

Integrated into a station now defined by movement and everyday routines, the intervention appears along the paths of commuters and passengers, revealing the station as a place where multiple temporalities coexist. The names accompany the daily flow of people before disappearing again at the end of the installation.

Named after the ferryman who carries souls across the river separating the worlds of the living and the dead in Greek mythology, Charon treats the station itself as a place of passage. For a limited time, a space of transit also becomes a place of remembrance.