After the Wall

More than three decades after its fall, the Berlin Wall persists — not as a barrier, but as a backdrop to everyday gestures. In this series, fragments of the Wall and its surrounding sites become stages for looking, posing, and remembering. Visitors peer through cracks, photograph reflections, or simply walk by, folding history into routine.

The work observes how collective memory shifts from monument to motif, from lived trauma to cultural ritual. The Wall’s surface — once forbidding — now absorbs selfies, graffiti, and curiosity. Through quiet humor and formal precision, the photographs reveal the paradox of remembrance in public space: we keep looking, even when we already know what’s behind the wall.