Slowly but surely, the "New Mitte" is encroaching into Rosa-Luxemburg-Strasse. Its grey ominous facades are one by one subject to scaffolding and renovation. The installation poignantly characterises the changes in this alienating through-street.
The facades of the neighbourhood are taken apart and set in motion: individual architectural elements drift by on monitors positioned on building site scaffolding which occupies the store front window of the gallery. Interspersed with the video monitors are neon signs from the sex shop which for many years occupied the building directly across the street: nostalgic artefacts, displaced into a new life. Video animations created from the signs in the windows showing the change of ownership / renovation / closing down / opening contrast ironically with images of the inhabitants watching the transformation process from their windows.
The scaffolding wall of televisions and letters forms a constantly changing semi-transparent interface. From outside, the viewer sees themself reflected against the house opposite, in its newly renovated state, while watching the same building on video as it once was: grey and stained, illuminated by the garish lights of the sex shop on the ground floor. Inside the Gallery, the viewer becomes the person looking out of the window on Rosa-Luxemburg-Str, seeing themselves in a fragmented reflection of the house across the street, listening to the voices of the street inhabitants: old and new and previous, a sound collage of memories, anecdotes, and personal histories.