The title Corpus für alle Delicti is a slogan that can be read on the public rubbish bins in Berlin. It belongs to a series of wordplays from the campaign of the corporation BSR (the Berlin City Cleaning).
An anecdote told that the incrimination evidence of a crime – a gun – was found in a rubbish bin in the district of Neukölln. And thus the incident would have inspired the slogan.
The series is a corpus of marks and junks belonging our urban environment, which people do not see or do not want to see. It is a corpus for any kind of occurrence, as the pictures don’t give any further information about the stories of those remains destitute of all necessities and functions. Thereby each photograph is a silent narration where interpretation is open. At the same time, the series creates an archeology of the ephemeral in the thick layer of the materiality of present time where the stigmas of recklessness show poetically how we inhabit places and objects – and eventually how they relate to the body.
To photograph those traces turn them into drawings and sculptures, while outside the picture, in the continuity of time, they are arrangements of contingency in slow transformation. These images could be memento mori addressed to the human race because, in the end, what survives over what? bodies or objets?