The Monuments | Chapter 4 | I Alone

Kühlhaus Berlin

18.03.2022

Site-specific Installation and durational performance

Chapter 4, I Alone, was presented at Kühlhaus Berlin from 6pm to 10pm, operating with intimate details that evoke universal feelings and mirror the spectator's own imaginative discourse. The core narrative is driven by the artist's grandmother—a survivor of WWII who instilled militaristic routines and caution, yet whose hidden diary, discovered after her death, revealed a life of surprising romance and travel, contradicting the family's known history.

The artist, inspired by this dissonance and the grandmother's living room centerpiece painting, began collecting fragments of what he believed were fragments of her memory. In order to connect these fragments, the artist decided to undergo a transformation, becoming the grandmother during the performance.

The project weaves together art pieces, personal objects, and the story of the diary into an installation and performance—a map of feeling and yearning that stretches through the whole piece. Through the joining of the fictitious and the real, the artwork creates a situation that reveals the hidden imaginary world of a deceased person and, at the same time, brings forth the role of imagination in confronting the objective reality of life.

Project by: JAŠA

Sound by: JAŠA with Zlatko Širol

Performing: JAŠA

Produced by: WE.ARE Institute

Supported by: Kühlhaus Berlin

Enabled by: The Monuments Patrons Club

Cover photo by: Primož Korošec

Text editing by: Noah Charney

Technical support: Denis Metting

Lighting by: Luka Gyoha

Sound consulting by: Zlatko Širol

Production management and communications by: Rosa Lux

Special thanks to: Andrea Wenzler, Dieter Siegel & Griša Šoba