HA SCHULT – TRASH PEOPLE

HA Schult, Place de Clairefontaine, Photo Herlinde Koelbl

ESPACE 1: EXHIBITION UNTIL OCTOBER 25th, 2014

The Galerie Clairefontaine Espace 1 is  presenting  photographs by  Thomas Hoepker, Gianlucca Battista,  showing the different journeys of the “Trash People” by HA Schult.

In 1996 struck the birth of the Trash people, life-size sculptures made from trash. They are our spitting image.

They stood in the Xanten Roman Amphytheatre, Germany, in front of La Grande Arche in La Défense, Paris, in Moscow on the Red Square, on the Great Wall in JinShan Ling, China, in front of the pyramids of Giza, Egypt, and in the most beautiful European saloon, the Grand-Place in Brussels. They gathered 2800 meters high on the Matterhorn and 880 meters deep in the salt mine of Gorleben, Germany, and in front of Kilkenny Castle in Ireland.

The present-day-refugees came to a halt in front of the Cologne Cathedral, in the Palais Herberstein in Graz, Austria, in Rome on Piazza del Popolo, in Barcelona on Plaza Real and in Washington D.C. in front of the National Geographic Museum. 2011 the journey continued to the no longer eternal ice of the Arctic. In 2014, after Israel, they are were short term visitors on Place de Clairefontaine in Luxembourg on invitation of Galerie Clairefontaine.

At the end of their odyssey across all the continents, they have been in the most outstanding historical locations of mankind. In twenty containers they roam around the world like refugees of the consumer society. The Trash People are images of ourselves. We produce trash and we will become trash. Today‘s Coca-Cola bottle is the Roman archeologist’s excavation of tomorrow.