The designers Studio Job have proposed to place a provocative “Buchenwald”fence in Zandvoort, The Netherlands, with smoking chimneys and a bell wearing the sign “Suum cuique”; in German: “Jedem das Seine”, the motto of concentration camp Buchenwald.
Suum cuique “Buchenwald” fence design StudioJob
The design has now been changed and there will no “Suum cuique” bell, but the smoking chimneys remain, and the “Suum cuique” rings on silently, since this motto has been broadly discussed in public.
This controversial design is a provocation to think about inclusion-exclusion issues in nowadays politics and society.
The fence is obviously meant and planned as a tasteless design- offence!?- , and is yet a political statement and question mark.
Maria Trepp www.passagenproject.com
This text is also published on my Dutch blog www.passagenproject.com/blog
