Summer Thoughts

Starting from an invitation from A Prior magazine to react on dOCUMENTA 13 – a letter that Sven Augustijnen wrote to Marta Kuzma on the tapestries of Hannah Ryggen – Summer Thoughts draws further on a web of associations that connect historical and topographical coincidences from the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War up until today. Through a physical confrontation with three of Hannah Ryggen’s tapestries, the letters and a window displaying newspapers, photographs, and books try to question the present state of crisis in Europe as not merely an economic one, but as a moral and cultural one marked by the deficit of political democracy and the resurgence of far-right movements.