| A MOBILE MEMORIAL TO THE VICTIMS OF THE CABLE-CAR ACCIDENT IN CAPRUN Empfangshalle was commissioned to design a memorial by the bereaved families and friends of the victims of the cable–car accident. "The accident in Caprun tore people out of their lives and from their families. Emptiness is now where they were, where they lived. We sought this conversation with the bereaved in order to approach this accident and the people affected by this disaster. They told us about their utterly personal ways of dealing with grief in hteir daily lives, at home." The 155 victims of the disaster were mostly young competitive sportspeople from seven different countries and their organizers. They leave families scattered all over the world behind them. What the bereaved families have in common is the loss they feel, above all at home. The orphaned rooms or places in the houses and apartments that are associated with the beloved person in special way were often left just as they were at the time of the accident. For years now, the slippers lie in their place, unchanged, the vocbulary bookle lies open on the desk, the clothes hang over the chair. These places have fallen out of time. They are reflections out of another time, the time before the disaster. They tell us about the continuing presence of the victims in their families’ lives. Empfangshalle wishes to record these places of personal remembrance in photographs, combining the collected images into a book. |
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