Just a Moment #3
Installation with Railway Sleepers and Porcelain Reliefs, 1600 cm × 200 cm, 2021

With Just a Moment #3, the artist creates a spatial installation that intertwines her personal existence with the history of her family. Its starting point is a confrontation with her own near-death experience and the legacy of her grandfather, a Holocaust survivor. Railway sleepers, a mirror, and the artist’s personal ECG become key elements in a reflection on life, death, and the inseparable connection between past and present.

Through the display of the original ECG curve, the work captures the intimate moment of an immediate encounter with death. Just as a heartbeat is unimaginable without a human being, a human being is inconceivable without a heartbeat. Here the pulse emerges as a melody of life—a weave of small rhythmic moments that set the tone and tempo and reveal the fragile stability of existence.

Nineteen porcelain reliefs are installed in a row on railway sleepers. These sleepers symbolically mark a path: they speak of our past, but also of inner strength and endurance. The steady rhythm of a passing locomotive merges with the rhythm of the heart, evoking memory, transmission, and forward movement.The entire installation concludes with a mirrored reflection in which the mirror directly engages the viewer and creates a counter-image. It embodies “the other side,” a message of the burden and responsibility of our ancestors that we carry from the past into the present and on into the future.