Cardboard and Sisal Twine
Dimensions Vary
As part the exhibition "Touching the Unknown" at Galerie Rathaus Reinickendorf, Berlin, Germany, May 6 - September 12, 2025.
Curated by Katharina Seifert and Ricarda Vinzig.
Shifting Security (On Rest) is a site-specific iteration of an ongoing series exploring fragility, resilience, and adaptation through sewn cardboard forms. Installed within the listed post-war extension of the Rathaus Reinickendorf — designed by Walter Briesenick between 1950 and 1955 — the work responds to the building’s architectural rhythm and historical context.
Interwoven cardboard boxes wind around a column and come to rest on the floor, evoking both the motion of departure and the calm of arrival. The material, commonly associated with transport and transition, is hand-sewn into a web-like structure that transforms rigidity into pliancy, the functional into the contemplative.
The installation unfolds as a quiet meditation on the process of reassembling security "piece by piece, box by box.*" In this space marked by civic purpose and continuity, Shifting Security (On Rest) reflects on the ongoing negotiation between stability and change — on how rest itself can be a state of gentle tension, continually re-formed through time, touch, and place.
*quoted from the translated curatorial text by Katharina Seifert