Which place offers the right conditions to build a dam in a flowing stream over the course of a week, using only one's own strength and the stones found on site? Angelika Wischermann’s work Flow and Overflow began with the search for a suitable riverbed.
The construction process took place in a remote mountain stream. For one week, she went there daily for six hours to build a dam made of stones. The duration corresponds to the opening hours of the exhibition; the construction process is presented in real time.
Building dams is an activity familiar to many and evokes childhood memories. The continuous flow of water is redirected, yet it remains impossible to stop the current entirely. Even as the dam, like in Angelika’s work, grows taller and wider with every stone carried and added, the water still finds its way through. The dam could have been further expanded, as the action necessarily remains unfinished.