#henrike-naumann

#henrike-naumann

Sung Tieu's monumental work suggests how easily one regime can be supplanted by another, cloaking the facade of the German Pavilion with a reconstruction of a communist housing complex.

In 2019, the artist Henrike Naumann built an East German living room and rotated it by 90 degrees. The sofa, chairs and coffee table all in the unmistakable aesthetic of the 1990s climbed the wall. The carpet became vertical. Cabinets hovered near the floor alongside a CD rack, baseball badges and a flag bearing a slogan in Sutterlin script: Beware of storm and wind and East Germans who are enraged.