IK wanted to go even further in his reconstruction work: his first idea was to have the first exhibition in Berlin and to rebuild the Wall.  That wasn’t allowed -for now- by the City Hall of Berlin. If this is so understandable it is profoundly due to the particularity of sentiment around the Soviet Union. It seems easily understandable that building up the wall again might disturb people who lived during that time, because it had a particularly strong impact on their daily life, obstructing their future, closing their possibility to visit friends, creating a space outside the space. The sentiment of nostalgia of the USSR was discussed by many authors, with people, for example, expressing that they were missing the status, because it was part of their life and the feeling of « it was better before » was discussed in relation to schooling by O. Aydarova (2015). Can this project be described as willing to go back to this time? IK was fascinated with Ladau and this is why he wanted to built this project. Laura Piccolo describes that people after the fall of the USSR had a feeling similar to the ‘Ostalgia’ specific to Eastern Germany, that she calls ‘Back in the USSR’ which is literally applicable in the case of DAU (2015). This ‘memorabilia‘ is to her a new romanticism which explains the appearance of many films and books that mentioned life under the USSR after the 1990s (Piccolo, 2015). I believe that the DAU project falls into that category of art that is significant of this feeling of nostalgia for a lost past.

 

 

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