“The Context” is a video postcard auto-generated by an iPhone. It is a slideshow where photos and videos taken on the same day (or in one month or year) are collected. Sometimes the phone picks up pleasant light music for them.

In this case, the phone generated a video sequence from photos and video footage of the day I visited the former Buchenwald concentration camp. It is interesting that the phone is not endowed with an understanding of what is happening in the videos and photos, and does not take mournful context into account, overlaying joyful music. The order of pictures and videos in the resulting work suggests an association with an American advertising for a new residential area from the last century. Everything is shown in such a way as if the phone shows which houses will be built, and then exactly where they will be located (the “not yet built up” plains are shown). In fact, the video shows the barracks for the prisoners.

Photos of the barracks are diluted with images of an observation point, a stove and the notorious gate with the slogan “To each his own”, as if this were the slogan of “a new residential complex”.