↗ i left my lungs in sonneberg

«i left my lungs in sonneberg» is a collaborative series with jacob heine starting in 2023 and to be continued.
to leave home leaves one with stories. stories of being raised in a place that no more remains the center of life but yet open to re-visitation. to leave means to form an image of what ones ‹home› was. to return means to re-evaluate, to compare what the story tells and what has remained of the place and what stories it tells of itself. «i left my lungs in sonneberg» is a series in which such stories of home-returners and a town intertwine, overlap and differ. in 2023, robert sesselmann became the district administrator of sonneberg, a town of roughly 25 thousand in southern thuringia, ten minutes north of the border to bavaria. he is the first district administrator of the afg (alternative for germany, a conseravtive party whose regional associations in saxony, saxony-anhalt and thuringia have been classified as far-right groups by the office for the protection of the constitution) nationwide. a collection of 18 postcards was displayed at «kunst gegen rechts» at mieze südlich (burgstraße 12, gera) curated by dirk teschner & mieze südlich from may 5th to june 23rd 2024.

afterwards, the series was supplemented with large prints of election partys, demonstrations and sonneberg's first csd, to be exhibited again, this time as a solo exhibiton, at kiosk.6 in weimar from november 25th to november 30th 2024.

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