Trapped in Air

Trapped in Air is a site-specific audio installation located at the House of Craftsmen’s Association (Handwerkervereinshaus, now Sophiensaele). This place used to be a place of forced labor, where among others, Ukrainian women used to be exploited as forced workers during World War II. There is almost no information about those people — the only thing we know is that they worked for a factory that produced high-precision grinding machines and small armaments. The sound installation is based on both real and fictional letters of Ukrainian Ostarbeiters, which highlights the impossibility of fully recovering the memory about them.