memento Prunus mahaleb

2023, textile installation, 2 x 800 cm

Textile banners move with the wind and tell through images and words the story of the small village in Burgenland and especially of those people, who are connected with the cultivation of the mahaleb cherry. Walbersdorf, once the center of the mahaleb cherry cultivation. The story of the village and especially that of the family of the last the mahaleb cherry farmer in Austria is told by this textile banners. This work is connected with the sound installation memento Prunus mahaleb and the publication CULTIVA memento Prunus mahaleb.