Copy of 1930 (horse) Print

The installation, “1930”, is a collection of paintings of everyday life in Berlin inspired by scenes from two Weimar Era feature films: "Berlin: Symphony of a Great City" and "People on Sunday". In what at first may appear as mundane urban scenes, a threatening presence slowly takes shape. Mysterious, misplaced shadows together with intertwined images of an imaginary rumor-driven monster (based on a drawing called "The Rumor" by Andreas Paul Weber) give a sense that something is broken. The installation presents a cross-section of German Weimar Era urban society captured by the ominous drumbeat of that time. In a larger sense, the paintings speak to how any country, place, or society, whether with full conscience or in complete innocence, can be swept away by a collective blindness based on rumors and falsehoods.