Ersatzmonument

Sebastian Acker, Magdalena Fabianczyk, Elisabeth Rosenthal
2012
Mixed media installation.
Found objects, styrofoam, wood, paint. Video projection with sound (09:13min loop).

Ersatzmonument was a collaborative work by Sebastian Acker, Magdalena Fabianczyk and Elisabeth Rosenthal at C. Rockefeller Center for the Contemporary Arts in Dresden. The project took sandstone – the vernacular building material extensively used on historic, reconstructed or historicising building facades and often linked to a nostalgic longing for a lost past – as a starting point for a fictional narrative.

Ersatzmonument, 2012, Installation view

Ersatzmonument, 2012, video still

Ersatzmonument, 2012, Installation view

Ersatzmonument, 2012, Installation view detail