Pumpstation & Sterntaler
Pump station and Star Coins

At Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin, Schrat developed his works with silhouettes further and went three-dimensional. In a mirrored shop window, illuminated with fluorescent tubes, silhouettes made of plywood are placed, staggered in a row.

The fairytale of 'Star Coin' is referred to as a basic pattern of collective wishes: stars are transformed into money. But only those get wealthy who do good, such as little girl who gave everything away. This story is confronted with numerous motifs and symbols of our reality:
Directly next to the girl from the fairytale, light shines from behind a locked door, but when one follows the upper arch of the door, it is not a door after all, but rather a view through two columns. The site is not accessible, but it seems decisive for everything else, it illuminates the scene. Its light also falls onto a machine that hangs above a desk on the right. The machine spews steam, the workplace underneath is empty. The machine is connected to a complex system of tubes which goes through the entire work and is reminiscent of energy cycles. One leading idea of this work for Schrat is the question about the engine of social evolution. We want to move ahead, and materially we want more, but simultaneously, we also want to do the right thing culturally and socially.

Schrat makes us a part of the expansive installation: we are both viewing subjects as well as viewed objects. Allusions and uncertainties are ubiquitous, and we, too, get caught up in the vortex: our life-sized mirror image is right in the midst of the events.

Different levels open up ever changing perspectives and arouse our curiosity as well as a need for orientation. And yet, again and again we are led astray. The mirrors make us get lost in the jungle of the duplications.