Schwall
2012 – 2025
Schwall combines photography, installation and language. In an apparently arbitrary arrangement of 45 photographically fixed terms, the work invites to reflect on fragments of information.
By isolating and recombining the terms, Schwall's surface inspires to create new meanings. The work addresses the power of framing: it reveals how semantics decay, emerge and shift through context. By deconstructing original references and exposing double meanings, it enables new associations in new framings.
Schwall shows observations from analogue space, that seem to have fallen out of time. The aesthetics of the photographs oscillate between supposedly promotional presentation and degradation, a fracture that reveals the fragility of contemporary narratives. Schwall therefore refers to the erosion of promises and the fluctuation of desires. The work provides a resonance space in which diagnosis of the present, projection into the future and critical self-positioning overlap, a place that rather negotiates than asserts.
Schwall as a curved wall
Schwall as a tower
Both versions stand on their own. They require a flat surface without a slope. The frames are connected to each other on their rear. The curved wall is supported by stabilisers from behind.
Variants / Details
Height: 230 cm
Depth: 160 cm
Width: 500 cm
Height: 230 cm
Diameter: 150 cm
Curved wall
Tower
Single images from Schwall
Schwall is a work by Heinz and Achim Hennecke.
45 wooden frames
by Heinz Hennecke
45 colour photographs
by Achim Hennecke