77 years after the Second World War the installation Beyond the Atlantic Burden breaks the status quo of the controversial heritage of the Atlantic Wall. The overly cautious way in which Europe deals with the 17.000 bunkers has paradoxically let to the conservation of their original intention; as ruins of the ‘Thousand-Year Reich’.

This meglomanic system will be impaired by digging out, reorientating and displacing the monoliths in the context of the dynamic coastal landscape.

The installation is a call for renewed imagination and represents a search for new meaning of controversial heritage through seemingly impossible experiments.

Client: Bureau Europa / Marres / Jan van Eyck
The Materiality of the Invisible

Art installation: RAAAF 

Location: Maastricht

Status: Realized, 201
Photography: Frederica Rijkenberg