Opacity (48.1244° N, 11.5571° E)
2026

“The transport of livestock through the city streets gave rise to scenes that, on the one hand, outrage the human conscience, but on the other hand also harden it; in particular, it is the frequent opportunity to witness slaughter that has a detrimental effect on the youthful heart.”

– Arnold Zenetti, architect of the Munich Slaughterhouse and Livestock Market, 1878

The Munich Slaughterhouse and Livestock Market opened on August 31, 1878, and remains in active operation today, some 150 years later. The site is shielded from public view by its red brick facades and walls, yet the smells and sounds of the slaughter penetrate these barriers. The work depicts an imprint of the slaughterhouse wall as a direct transfer onto paper. As physical evidence of the desire for repression and exclusion, walls cannot prevent the images that form in our minds.

The traces left by direct, physical contact with the wall raise the question of to what extent physical barriers are a manifestation of what we, as a society, do not to see.