Wie Feuer und Wasser
Installation at Petruskirche Neu-Ulm, 2023
A 15-meter drawing made with charcoal, suspended high above through the church ceiling, spans the space in vertiginous height — a spatial gesture in its purest form, referencing the colorful church windows by Hubert Distler representing the earth (1960).
Alongside it, an installation of charred willow rings extends over ten meters. Each ring, 70 cm in diameter, is knotted to the next and suspended in rhythm. Slowly rotating around their own axes, the rings generate a quiet, spiral-like motion — a fragile architecture of repetition, resistance, and continuous transformation – referencing the colorful church windows by Hubert Distler representing the sun (1960).
On the floor at the center of the space, a sound sculpture: a bell-like instrument composed of charred coconuts. A single motor sets a blackened sphere in motion, striking the coconuts one by one. Their resonant tones echo through the space — like signals from the outside world, a ritual, a meditation.