Henrike Naumann Stared Down a Divided Germany’s Past While Eyeing Our Troubled Present

Henrike Naumann Stared Down a Divided Germany’s Past While Eyeing Our Troubled Present

Henrike Naumann found expressions of power, personal desire, and political will in the objects of our lives. She was an avid collector of the secondhand—in the sense of used furniture, which features prominently in almost all her work, but also in how rhetoric and belief appear in the design of things we consume, and which we in turn use to represent ourselves. I doubt I could ever fully follow Henrike’s extended scavenger hunt for the intrica…