Spielraum (2022) is a single book sculpture installation, addressing the notion of “inner solitary confinement” - what is it like to be confined to your own memory and cultural context? A study of the works of the first black German philosopher, Anton Wilhelm Amo (1703-1759). How free are our thoughts when the body is isolated from its surroundings? How long can a spirit and, according to Amo, a soul feast on the positive memories of a “free” life. Both sentences and the portrait, written on the paper, quotations from Amo's Apatheia text, appear abstract. They give impulses, stimulate thinking - they themselves become a scope, a Spielraum- to reflect on ́Otherness ́, salient in all times. This book won the 2022 Artist Book Prize from the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel, Germany.
Institutional collectors: Herzog August Bibliothek, University of Delaware
Material: Oilsticks, wood, bookbinder’s thread, Misu paper, ink.
Dimensions: 24 x 24 x 1 inch (folded book), 14 x 14 feet (unfolded book), 2 x 2 x 6 feet (hanging sculpture)