Das Gebrochene der Stadt posters
What do the broken stones make us contemplate? What memories are inscribed in the material? Can vulnerability be found within the stones? And what kind of care work might be assigned to us by them? What does it mean to think – to work with the fragments, the fallen, and the remnants of the city?
Das Gebrochene der Stadt (“The Brokenness of the City”) by Fanti Baum and Sebastian Klawiter embarks on a performative exploration of the poetic potential of the stony over the course of ten days and constructs a radically diverse sculpture – composed of spolia, stones, used materials, and whatever else the city may provide. In this way, a provisional constellation is created, one that doesn’t coalesce into a whole, but perhaps that is precisely why it reveals itself as a formation of Stuttgart; undiscovered.
The typography mirrors the fractured essence of brokenness by dismantling the format into distinct individual components, which iterate and, in doing so, construct a fresh and innovative composition.
