The Damascina Rose project was created during the Wöhr+Reinheimer Foundation’s residency scholarship in Berlin.

Rania Faour from the flower store Damascina Rose at Kleistpark subway station in Berlin puts the unsold flowers on the side every evening. I pick them up every evening, cut them up and dry them. This material, although discarded, is very valuable to me and forms the basis for the installation: Flower Carpet after a drawing by Duaa Faour, 2019.

… The artist gives asylum to the seemingly futile cut flowers, saving them from their all-too-rapid return to the biological cycle. She dries them in the studio, arranges them in unusual formations, fills entire rooms with them, portrays them in her usual meticulous manner and asks questions with her work: Why is the hydrangea blue? Where does this rose come from? How much nature is actually in nature? How much damage to nature does our longing for nature cause? … 

Christiane Lange

Detail Blaue Hortensien-Blüte (Aluminiumsulfat), 2019, watercolour on paper, 115 × 200 cm

Blaue Hortensien-Blüte (Aluminiumsulfat), 2019, watercolour on paper, 115 × 200 cm

Detail Nessel-Seide (Vollschmarotzer), 2019, watercolour on paper, 115 × 200 cm

Nessel-Seide (Vollschmarotzer), 2019, watercolour on paper, 115 × 200 cm

Detail Ein halbes Jahr später (Blatt), 2019, watercolour on paper, 115 × 200 cm

Ein halbes Jahr später (Blatt), 2019, watercolour on paper, 115 × 200 cm

Detail Ein halbes Jahr später (Stöckchen), 2019, watercolour on paper, 115 × 200 cm, Graphische Sammlung Villa Merkel, Esslingen, DE

Ein halbes Jahr später (Stöckchen), 2019, watercolour on paper, 115 × 200 cm, Graphische Sammlung Villa Merkel, Esslingen, DE