aside from documenting the protests in hambacher forst, the work is outlining various positions in the conflict, that is a symptom of a fundamental future issue. between the presence of the society and its uncertain future, the work is creating an image space, that is shifting within dystopia and hope.
the undergone utopias founded in novel blueprints of communal life that arose in hambacher forst during the past six years, were suddenly destroyed by the country's demonstration of power. people, who left society behind to develop a new idea of community rooted in the fight for a piece of forest, were bereaved their habitat, to immediately squat it again. the protest against the clearing reached a size that even surprised the occupiers. a broad mass, consisting of all social classes, formed with the common goal of saving the forest. loaded with emotional strength, hambacher forst grew to a symbol of international climate protection. the discourse about power, future, past, justice and injustice, climate and the fate of RWE workers, forest occupants and local residents leaves marks of a fight that introduces various questions.
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