nell berger

“Archaeology of Oblivion”, 2025

The achievements of women in numerous disciplines, past and present, have been systematically sidelined. Female role models have long remained out of the picture, and even today they are not fully acknowledged or appreciated. During the performance, the artist will write down texts by women such as Virginia Woolf, Joke Smit, Susan Sontag and herself, using sand on the floor. Visitors will walk over it and in doing so slowly erase what has just been written. ARCHAEOLOGY OF OBLIVION symbolizes disappearance, the gradual burying of what women have produced and contributed. Yet there is something hopeful in this gesture: a quiet perseverance, a reminder of what has already been achieved and the importance of continuing onward.