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Jens Klein – Balloons

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When the inner-German border was established, West Germans would attach leaflets and magazines — and subsequently books too — to gas-filled balloons installed with a timer mechanism that dropped them in the GDR if wind conditions were favourable. In the absence of any contextualisation, the balloons could be many things: a child’s plaything, land art, a performative installation, a meteorological measuring instrument, or even a means of broadcasting political concerns. Balloons juxtaposes photos from the Stasi archives with texts in the form of logs documenting the flight of the transport ball

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