2026
300 x 600 x 35 cm
Photo: Die Neue Sammlung - The Design Museum (K. Mewes), details: Irena Lagator
The installation creates a fragile self-supporting landscape from reclaimed facade glass from Munich, collected through the Treibgut circular economy initiative. The work references Bauhaus ideals of transparency as a democratic symbol, revealing a profound paradox: the reflection of light through material that promised progress today mirrors the ecological catastrophe of carbon modernity. Transparency, once a utopian vision, becomes material evidence of systemic collapse. Confronting the ruins of modernism, the work poses urgent questions: how do we learn from what remains? How do we build on ruins? Through transforming the discarded into critical testimony, the piece demands a rethinking of institutional responsibility. Aesthetics becomes a tool against forgetting—a mirror of our failure and a call for systemic change. (Irena Lagator Pejović)