Walhalla tale (2023)
Photographic series
Walhalla Tales is a photographic project developed for the City of Wiesbaden. The Walhalla building, constructed in 1897 as a theatre with grand gastronomy, has undergone multiple cultural transformations and periods of abandonment. While officially designated for future cultural reuse, the site currently exists in a state of suspension.
The series explores this in-between condition — between historical significance and uncertain future, between public memory and physical decay. Rather than documenting the building as architectural heritage, the photographs focus on traces, atmospheres and temporal dissonances that reveal how cultural meaning persists even in absence and inactivity.
Walhalla Tales reflects on architecture as a carrier of collective memory and asks how spaces retain symbolic power when their original function has been lost. The work resists nostalgic reconstruction and instead examines waiting, silence and latent potential as photographic subjects.