Thomas Demand Repository, 2018

Repository, 2018, imagines a small room which Alexander Kluge used as study in the 1980s. An homage to the senior German film director, tv producer and philosopher who has been a frequent interlocutor and collaborator of Demand’s for many years, Repository reconstructs Kluge’s longtime studio in Munich. Recreating a place that no longer exists, Demand constitutes a living memory of a life work: both as site of activity, for example, Kluge’s extensive interview practice, and as repository of this work stored in multiple media, tape recordings, video cassettes, reels of film, and of course books.