Inventory IPharmaceuticals
Twelve pharmaceutical products, each marked with its expiry date - functional data that now reads like a time stamp of absence. What remains when routine breaks off and supply is no longer needed?
Abandoned Inventory Series
Digital works
Abandoned Inventory is an ongoing video series that catalogs objects found in abandoned buildings. Each inventory isolates twelve objects from their surroundings and presents them one by one within a standardized system. Objects that might otherwise remain unnoticed are numbered, documented and treated as entries in an archive.
Labels, dates, manufacturer information, packaging and traces of use become markers of time. Functional data that now reads like a time stamp of absence. By applying the same system of documentation to objects regardless of their practical or monetary value, the series shifts attention towards what is usually overlooked or left behind.
Rather than attempting to reconstruct the history of a place, the inventories create partial records from the material that remains. Each object becomes a fragment of a larger context that can no longer be fully recovered.
Inventory IIBooks
Twelve books, marked by their year of publication. Their age and presence offer subtle clues to the lives, interests and histories of the people who once lived here.
Inventory IIIFood
Twelve grocery items, marked by their expiration dates - traces of the routines and the absence of the people who once lived here.
Inventory IVLetters
Twelve letters, marked by the dates they were written. Their dates and survival offer subtle traces of lives shaped by World War II.
Inventory VDrugstore Products
Twelve drugstore products, marked by their years of origin, traced through research - clues to the habits and everyday lives of those who once lived here.
Inventory VIMagazines
Twelve magazines, marked by their dates of publication - hints at the interests and daily lives of the people who once lived here.
Inventory VIIEnvelopes
Twelve envelopes from the World War II era. Postal and censorship stamps evoke the oppressive historical context; all addresses and prohibited symbols have been obscured, leaving the envelopes as silent witnesses.