Interactive installation for the Fremdkörper group show at the Kiezkapelle, Neukölln.
1-3 December 2023
The Kiezkapelle and surrounding cemetery are places where life and death coexist. The skull, the hourglass and the mirror have traditionally been used in art as symbols of transience and mortality.
Memento Mori offered a chance to interact with these symbols for a short while. Visitors were invited to select a linocut skull print and draw a self portrait over it using felt tip pens. Participants were asked to add their picture to the display.
hourglass (5 minutes), felt tip pens.
The printed instructions :
Memento Mori
To take part in this workshop experience, here are the guidelines:
Select a print and take it to the drawing table.
Sit down opposite a mirror and choose two or three coloured pens to draw with.
Get ready to draw your self portrait over the image of the skull.
Please do the drawing within the time limit allowed by the hourglass ( it will be either 3 or 5 minutes).
Please add your work to the display.
Thank you !
Over the three days the exhibition ran, 132 people contributed their self portrait to the exhibition. Here are some of them:
