'Memory vault' 2025, plexiglass, clear adhesive print, 3d print, Raspberry&LCD display
105x116x10 cm

Part of the group show 'VOGELSCHLAG' @spoiler.zone Berlin

The scene operates as a map of forgetting; repeated processing, consistent form, eroded reference. Surfaces bear traces of prior use, converted and transcribed until they resemble nothing but endurance; even when the content withdraws. Seen through the window, memory appears here as a state of maintenance rather than remembrance. A directionless view: empty, mold-stained walls, imprints of prior use; reads as archival surface: scanned, converted, transcribed; presence reduced to idleness; a memory shadow.
The work operates between the eerie and the vectoral. The eerie describes absence that continues to act, a presence detached from its origin. The vectoral defines ownership of information and the invisible control over access. Their intersection outlines a form of memory detached from consciousness; traces remain active, detached from emotion or narrative, functioning as automated continuities of what no longer requires meaning.
Memory Vault observes this condition not as a dystopia but as a common state. The surface of the digital archive mirrors the surface of the wall, both store traces, both degrade. Within digital systems, the past endures through circulation, not remembrance. The view through the window exposes memory’s architecture: stable yet eroding, persistent yet emptied of meaning; the condition of memory itself: suspended between visibility and loss. Each layer, scan, file, pixel~ stabilises the trace while dissolving its context; data persists, meaning recedes.