Primordial Forum: Lost Languages
Kunstverein Heppenheim•Apr 24, 2026 — May 31, 2026
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At the centre of “Primordial Forum: Lost Languages” is a wall that has outlived the messages it once carried.
Lucia Sotnikova’s long-term project “Primordial Forum” began with the photographic documentation of a former fifteen-metre advertising wall in the artist’s hometown. For years, the wall carried cultural, social, and political announcements. It stood at human eye level, close enough to be touched and read in passing. After analogue poster surfaces disappeared from the city, the wall remained: repainted silver each year, emptied of its public function, yet still marked by rusting staples, nails, abrasions, and overpainted traces of previous communication.
In 2020, Sotnikova presented a photographic copy of the wall at 1:1 scale at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, making the support itself visible as the work. Since then, the wall has returned in different forms: as a built object, an image surface, and a spatial structure. Made of wood and plywood, painted silver and fitted with real…
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Primordial Forum: Lost Languages
Kunstverein Heppenheim•Apr 24, 2026 — May 31, 2026
Press Release
At the centre of “Primordial Forum: Lost Languages” is a wall that has outlived the messages it once carried.
Lucia Sotnikova’s long-term project “Primordial Forum” began with the photographic documentation of a former fifteen-metre advertising wall in the artist’s hometown. For years, the wall carried cultural, social, and political announcements. It stood at human eye level, close enough to be touched and read in passing. After analogue poster surfaces disappeared from the city, the wall remained: repainted silver each year, emptied of its public function, yet still marked by rusting staples, nails, abrasions, and overpainted traces of previous communication.
In 2020, Sotnikova presented a photographic copy of the wall at 1:1 scale at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, making the support itself visible as the work. Since then, the wall has returned in different forms: as a built object, an image surface, and a spatial structure. Made of wood and plywood, painted silver and fitted with real…
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