Through her artistic practice, Nadia Kaabi-Linke frequently transfers traces of violence from their original location into the exhibition space. This painting is a life-size recreation of a gravestone in the Werderscher Kirchhof cemetery in Berlin’s district of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. The artist traced the damage that was caused by heavy fighting during the Second World War (1939–1945) from the Surface of the gravestone onto the painting’s canvas. The destruction caused by war – now preserved in Kaabi-Linke’s work – spares no one, not even the departed.
— Sam Bardaouil, curator of Seeing Without Light, 2023, Hamburger Bahnhof – Nationalgalerie der Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
