Das Parlament träumt -
Ein poetisches Bild des Europäischen Parlaments
The Parliament Dreams -
A Poetic Picture of the European Parliament
Could a picture revive the much-vaunted “Dream of Europe”? A romantic group portrait showing Europe‘s representatives, including the Council and the Commission, dreaming shoulder to shoulder? The photomontage shows a documentary precisely reconstructed plenary session in Strasbourg, all 818 participants have their eyes closed and are looking inwards. The individual snapshots were taken from the gallery during the sessions (Oct. 2019 to Feb. 2020), then cropped and re-inserted in the empty photographed plenary hall in its regular place. The selection criterion for the individual portraits was as beautiful as possible.
The „European Dream“ probably refers to a wishful dream, as day-dreams and sleeping dreams are not welcome in politics. Even though dream research now knows that uncontrollable dreaming, even brief pauses, is elementary for the brain‘s connection processes in order to be able to think independently and creatively, feel empathy and act accordingly. For this reason, a Parliament that has to decide on the framework conditions for the “Dream of Europe” should actually dream from time to time as a matter of course. The fact that such an appearance can also come across as naïve or populist at first glance, is the discussion-stimulating calculation. After all, the dreaming plenum is intended to encourage a wide variety of people to examine their own European ideas and debate them. Only then is the work complete.
Digital photomontage,
8 Fine Art Prints,
Ilford Gold Fibre Rag on Dibond, wax-sealed,
Blue cotton velvet reverse,
Shadow gap frame wood gray,
The work can be installed hanging on the wall
or free-standing in the room,
Height 2.42 m, total length in row 18.70 m,
Installation as circle Ø approx. 8.30 m
2022 | "Le parlement rêve", Lieu d'Europe Strasbourg (F),
Opening with Vice President Rainer Wieland, MEP
2022 | ST.ART 2022, Strasbourg (F)
2022 | "eh?uh!", Kunstverein Gästezimmer Stuttgart (DE), Discussion with Andreas Glück, MEP
The Project Was Kindly Supported By:
City and Eurometropolis of Strasbourg (F) | City of Stuttgart (DE)| GEDOK Stuttgart (DE)| Haute école des arts du Rhin HEAR Strasbourg (F)| Centre Européen d’Actions Artistiques Contemporaines CEAAC Strasbourg (F)| A Scholarship from the Ministry of Science, Research and Arts Baden-Württemberg (DE)
