regidrago

Conceptual artist Eichhorn immerses us in the very work of recovering, finding, and returning looted objects. She does so by surrounding us with actual instances of archival papers, ledgers, reports, books, and on and on, all wanted to confirm, certify, analyse, authenticate every artifact, each item. Further intensifying the sense of being thrust into the work itself is the audio backdrop of an ongoing, non-stop recording of the voice of philosopher Hannah Arendt. She is reading various memos she wrote in her capability as a director of the company tasked with the sad but urgent objective of sorting via the large crates of supplies that have been recovered. Yet regardless of her efforts, Valland couldn’t save all of them, alas. A black and white photograph of the room, probably from 1942, shows work by André Derain and Claude Monet, amongst others, that didn’t turn up post-war and most likely had …