Mareike Bernien

Through desktop documentary and forensics, this work explores how images of Medusa of Hatra, ISIS propaganda, and digital archives influence reality and memory while examining violence and witness.

A group of people, a flashlight, a strip of x-ray film is buried in the gravel of uranium mining sites in Saxony and Thuringia for USSR's atomic weapons program. The ground exposes the film, leaving behind a trace of its invisible rays.

With its image axis repeatedly tilting and tipping out of frame, Depth of Field examines three places in the German city of Nuremberg which are haunted by the memory of the racist murders committed there by the NSU far-right terrorist group between 2000 and 2005.