Installation from Gerda Waha
Foto: Karl-Heinz Mierke
Stones block the way. At first glance, randomly brought up cobblestones force us to pause. On closer inspection you can see the faces of exhausted children between the other gray, faceless stones, they tell the story of a lost childhood.
Child workers, have more in common with the gray street paving stones than the first glance might suggest. Just like this, you pave the way for other people. Too often they get under the wheels themselves.
Stones help, because stumbling over stones makes us pause, take a closer look – this is how the still numerous child laborers are relieved of their anonymity.
Stumble, pause, look, reflect and take it into your own life –
Foto: Karl-Heinz Mierke
When? Vom 26. September bis 01. November 2015
Where? Im Naturparkzentrum Habichtswald
Auf dem Dörnberg, 34289 Zierenberg
For the exhibition “Helping Stones?” The Marburg artist Gerda Waha has resumed and expanded an old project “On the Disappearance of Childhood”. The stones not only serve as stumbling blocks, they also give every viewer the possibility of direct help. A large part of the proceeds from the sale of the individual stones after the exhibition is donated to XertifiX Sozialprojekte e.V.
