Herbert, a photographer/artist, spent most of the 15 days hunting for images in the nearby places of the city. By the end of the workshop his photo-installation included more than hundred photographs and snapshots printed on a single sheet, making it a 25 meter long scroll.

He constructed a hexagonal space by means of wooden ­blocks and pillars where the scroll was mounted in a way to run along both the inner and the outer wall, suggestive of a somewhat transparent gallery space, so that a viewer could experience the non-linear narrative in circular time. From a distance this little structure looked somewhat like a post-demolition construction-a small shelter abstracted from the debris. However, Herbert tried to bring in the ambience of homely warmth by making a little fireplace in the centre of the construction. A similar strain runs through the selected photographs as not all the images negotiate the political but encompass a landscape narrating stories from the obvious to the hidden, from the apparent dissolution to the implicit hope for peace, tinged with a sense of irony and wit.

The actual door, as a found object, standing between the two ends of the scroll and placed as open, plays a significant role in creating a sense of an inside-outside experience for the viewer. Herbert speaks of the possible encounters a viewer may experience by making the whole and the parts into a single specific narrative where the private and the public oscillate like an indefinite pendulum.

“To walk inside and outside the house is a symbol of inner and outer view on one and the same subject, as well as to go ii”! and out of a door, from public open to private inner space, using a door as a border in between. I wanted to express that there are always at least two points of view on something, and when reaching the door at the end a third time, there maybe will be a third point of view, like a coin has not only two faces, but a third, its thickness. The door is always open to see and change fixed opinion on something.”

Herbert’s reference to home anticipates a promise beyond the political and the existential and works its way out of the dilemma alluding to a more open-ended, transparent and a holistic experience.