Fragments of memory The Treasure of St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague in Dialogue with Edmund de Waal, Josef Koudelka and Julian Rosefeldt

It can be complementary!
The exhibition space in Lipsiusbau is remarkable!
What makes it remarkable?
I'm going through it, exploring it, we're at the beginning of the work. Soon, the feeling that it is a rare space that raises its head, that makes you raise your head, begins to prevail in me. I obey and raise it. It occurs to me that I need to understand its cross-section - the cross-section. I study the section and perceive that the space is composed of heavy architectural elements - authentic old fragments and recently added new elements. But what connects them, what is their bond? I sense the pulsating space like a breath when reading a well-structured text. Heavy passages are difficult to read with long concentrated breaths. Gradually, though, the possibility of a light, relieved exhale comes. During this, stars of hope pop up before the eyes and bubbles of oxygen refresh the brain.
The space of Lipsiusbau is an artfully composed text.
It is to be the setting for the exhibition Fragments of Memory. The dominant exhibit is the treasure of St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague - a collection of precious artifacts that were collected and pieced together from scraps of history with the desire to preserve memory, to develop it, to build on it. To bear witness, to write a text about it.
There is a conviction that it can be done, that it is suitable, that such an exhibition can be of great importance here. There is even an exclamation: it can be complementary!
We will put the St. Vitus Treasure - a collection of hundreds of memory fragments - in a monumental cabinet and use it as another element to make the architectural space of the Lipsiusbau more compact.

It offers to make the complementary even more complementary.

The works of Edmund de Waal, Josef Koudelka and Julian Rosenfeld reflect on the theme of memory, explore memory, strengthen it, enrich it, continue to write it - they are to be part of the exhibition. They can add value to the testimony of an abiding interest in the essential. They can expand the text. The point will be to engage them in the rhythm of the reading.

And the library? A library holds thousands of texts, thousands of fragments of memory. Building it as part of the exhibition seems necessary. The literalness of the text need not be a bad thing.

This is the architecture of Fragments of Memory.