This installation was created as part of the 8th Water Biennale 2023/24.
Longing for the Dip
Waste is not something, that drops “off or out“ from a production process; it is created today as a excretion from a socio-economic societal body – it “drops off” the end of processes of consume. Before, things were „thrown away“, now „left“ or „littered“ describes a behaviour shaped by consumerism.
Christina Helena Romires collected garbage, cleaned by the river water, symbolises the change from the early 80ies surface level consideration of waste to today’s focus on the level of material and resources. (Günther Pedrotti)
A variety of materials, textures and parts of objects, which are ever present in our everyday are often the starting points of Romires' projects. These objects meanings are questioned and removed from their ordinary surroundings, transformed and contextualised anew.
Most “stones” produced in the process of imaginary stones are presented in an archive. The rest are positioned in locations, where Romires found waste. They might be discovered by hikers and taken, they might remain in place, or they might be washed away by the river water.
