Bjørn Melhus Tower to the People: SOS – Save Our Souls

Solo Show

30 April – 2 May 2021, 9-10pm
LOQI Tower, Frankfurter Tor, 10243 Berlin
ebensperger.net


On the three evenings of Gallery Weekend Berlin – 30 April1 May and 2 May – an emergency SOS signal will be sent by switching on and off the lights in the north tower of the Frankfurter Tor between 9 and 10 pm. The emergency signal SOS, otherwise used in shipping, will be morsed into the city space. The premises are provided by the Berlin Art Brand LOQI.

The initiative „Tower to the People“, consisting of the artist Bjørn Melhus, the Ebensperger gallery and the Art Brand LOQI, would like to invite you and call for the joint action Save Our Souls – Rettet unsere Seelen: whether in the form of the Morse Code — three times short — three times long — three times short — or just by simply switching on and switching off the room light.

Two weeks after the action “Lichterfenster”, where the pandemic victims and their relatives were commemorated, Save Our Souls is to become a collective cry of distress for mental health and an expression of mutual compassion. In a time when depression and other mental illnesses have massively increased and the lack of art and culture is drying up our souls, the SOS signal is intended to set a common, peaceful, and above all safe sign of hope for all those affected.