Rémy Markowitsch
Rémy Markowitsch’s AesopScans show X-ray images of numerous taxidermied animals – from mouse to snake. The Swiss artist created them using a digital scanning device similar to those employed at airports. The colourful scans not only reveal the delicate internal structures of the stuffed animals but also their material composition. They too raise uncomfortable questions: how do we humans assert control over the animal world? And how does a living creature become an object of research, a commodity, or something to decorate our homes?
In his monumental multimedia installation WE ALL (Except the Others), Rémy Markowitsch transforms the historic suspended car workshop of the Völklingen Ironworks into a spatial field of remembrance. Between slag heaps, benzene houses, and the Church of Reconciliation unfolds a dense web of history and the present: forced labor, environmental destruction, the power and myth of the Röchling family. Archival footage, new film scenes, and voices intertwine into a poetic and unsettling homage to a contradictory legacy.