The exhibition “Dagmar Schuldt: Archaeology of Thought — On the Art of the Visible and Invisible” at the Archaeological Museum Frankfurt not only combines art and history, but also interlinks the exhibition space with the city and the surrounding landscape. Dagmar Schuldt understands history as a widely ramified network of thoughts and experiences — made visible through her installations, historical maps and inspired steles at seven marked geopoints in Frankfurt’s city forest and in Niederrad. Visitors are invited to use an art map and unique stamp motifs to create their own train of thought and lay out an individual, artistic route through the urban landscape — a collective memory project that interweaves past and present.
The exhibition focuses on fragments of memory: painted tiles from houses destroyed in the Second World War form a seven-metre-long mosaic — a “train of thought” — in the former choir room of the museum. Schuldt’s works show how old and new networks of paths, memories and the forgotten are superimposed. Her video work “Schicht — Um Schicht — Umschichten” picks up on this principle by placing the tile fragments in various historical locations and documenting them on film. The exhibition invites visitors to search for traces of the stories and layers of collective memory — visible or invisible, always with the possibility of discovering new perspectives.
