The In Between, 2025
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A message written on the tiled subway wall could have been seen for seconds, hours or a couple of days.
When I arrived, it had already been cleaned. I was never able to read it.
Now, I can only try to decipher the message from the remains of the writing that can be seen between the tiles, which could not be erased.
It is a speculative process on a wall.
Other walls in the city have also undergone speculative processes.
A wall is covered with replicas of the type of ceramic tiles which can be originally found in the stations of the underground transportation system (U-Bahn) in Berlin. These walls are constantly used as blank pages for notifications, messages, or anonymous signatures. These texts are persistent, and will appear, disappear and reappear again. In the installation The In Between Sandonis recreates a process of writing and erasing, leaving traces in the joints between the tiles. The act of wiping or erasing the message speaks not just to loss, but to the persistence of what cannot be completely undone.
The moments we’ll stand on a platform waiting for the train to come, might be those in which we forget time. The tiles hold space for one’s own projection. Facilitating daydreaming while waiting. Life happens in moments in between.
