Taking the shape of a video installation in the Gerhard Marcks House, ‘Toppled from the Horizontal Axis’ is a proposition that draws from the vertical axes (2 spiral handrail structures) of the former Federal Bank Building (LZB) a.k.a. "Monetary Bulwark" located in kohlhökerstraße 29. It mobilizes toppling as speculation of the vertical axes, retrieving fractions from the former construct in collaboration with many actors, among which is Bauteilbörse Bremen as a local partner, weaving together a series of conversations that tackle the binary of glorification (embedded in the museological context of preservation) or denial (inscribed in the instituting of the new without dealing with its past formation). The work unsettles this dichotomy, reusing the fractions as imperatives that could inform and co-constitute an alternative scenario.

‘Toppled from the Horizontal Axis’ is the second iteration of a project presented as part of a group exhibition, something to declare, nothing to declare in April 2022. Previously, it took place at a former supermarket space in the Gröpelingen area of Bremen.