Dunja Herzog, A Personal Affair. Digging To Remember Forward, installation view, Eva Maria Ocherbauer 2017.
Born Basel, Switzerland (1976), lives and works in Berlin, Germany
A Personal Affair. Digging To Remember Forward 2017
Multi media installation and video 5.55min
Courtesy of the artist
Artist statement
Oris watches made in Switzerland,
Former family business that still pays my current bills.
This feeling that is bugging me since I’m a child,
that things are not quite right, not as they should be.
Trade. Money.
It always takes two to tango.
Gold, gold
quick quick,
nownow, more, moooore…
In the name of Jesus since 1856 by the Basel Mission,
Now “Run For Your Life Ministry”
UTC
United Trade Company
or
Unheimlich Tüchtige Christen
Uncanny Capable Christians
since 1932
Basel is my hometown.
Money made in 9ja goes Basel.
Taxes,
cultural philanthropy,
now back in Lagos
– wash it well!
What about the mothers that sell their goods on the street side?
Crashed baskets by wage labor.
The railway,
just from man to man.
I read that gender bias came with the Santa Claus.
Digging through the thick layers of ignorance,
exhuming the past to sharpen the present,
tired of the non-dit,
where are the Jesters?
The privilege to renounce,
being paralyzed by the oppressive comfort zone.
We can’t afford it any longer.
When I dance my body remembers.
