Eva Olthof - In der Freihand

Eva Olthof (Nijmegen, 1983) collects fragments, photographs (both taken by herself and found), archival material, texts and objects, searching for the boundaries between the documentary and imaginary image.

At TENT, Olthof presented an installation in which her new publication ‘Return to Rightful Owner’ played a central role. The politics of forgetting, remembering and citing, is the central theme of the book, which takes the origination of the Amerika-Gedenkblibliothek in Berlin as its starting point. This public academic library, modeled after the Anglo-Saxon Public Library, was opened in 1954 as a gift from the American people to the population of West Berlin.