Alsos, Epsilon, Toothpaste
This curious combination of three words was the code name of an Allied intelligence mission in 1944/45 whose aim was to arrest the German atomic physicists, the representatives of the "Uranverein", and to find out to what extent the Third Reich had developed an atomic weapon.
The work continues to deal with the universal world formulas as they were in vogue in the 20th century. From the discovery of the atom and nuclear fission as a way of harnessing new energy potentials, I create a link to the claims to universality of the avant-gardes of art: the physicists interned in a country house near Cambridge, Constantin Brancusi's infinite column and the crystal as a metaphor of modernity come together in a formally aesthetically consistent way.
2012
photos: Björn Siebert