The Monuments | Chapter 15 | Let Me Take Care of You

Kühlhaus Berlin

27.09.2025

Site-specific Installation and durational performance

Chapter 15 – Let Me Take Care of You was an ephemeral, site-specific act where care became not a representation but its actual practice.

In contrast to Chapter 14, which moved through personal recollection and isolation, Chapter 15 opened as a collective performance across mediums, disciplines, and bodies. It did not aim to reflect on an alternative reality, but rather climbed through difficulty to become one. This was the core message of the project: not to describe reality, but to embody it.

Here, The Monuments—as a whole and through this Chapter—took its clearest political stance. It affirmed that art could form an alternative reality, though not one built of solid structures or ideologies. Instead, it was a reality forged from fragility, impermanence, and interdependence—an ephemeral and sublime form that resisted being recognized as evidence, yet persisted in its presence.

The title underlined a powerful offer of help, support, or protection and assumed a sense of responsibility for the others. This embodied the idea of care as an active practice—a conscious choice to be present, to shield, and to signal a readiness to step in. In a world full of flux and uncertainty, this Chapter intended to make room for human connection and protection. "Let me take care of you" engaged in a perpetual tension, constantly negotiating the space between distance and closeness, and between the individual and the collective.

This was a conscious decision: to create a space where care was both method and subject; where materials and moving bodies were only given shape through the architecture of the moment, shaped by poetry and human attention. In this fleeting structure, art became not a representation of care, but its actual practice.

Performance concept with Mattias Gimigliano

Performance by Gáspár Bálint-Hazai, Göksu Kaya, John Phele, Laura DeAngelis, and Vincent Schneider

Sound and music with Mario Babojelič

Curated by Laura Rositani

Enabled by The Monuments Patrons Club

Supported by Triglav Group