Annika Henderson

In an unnamed city, a beauty salon becomes a space of passage where those cast out gather, suspended between life and death. At its center is the Individuo, a solitary presence who tends to this place without any promises or explanation. The film unfolds as time and place dissolve into one another. What is lived, remembered, and imagined coexists in a continuous movement, where meaning emerges through ritual, drifting, and return. Within this space, beauty and death are intertwined. The salon becomes a threshold where presence and memory fade and reappear, and where the boundaries between reality and vision begin to loosen. The outside world remains fractured, its tensions quietly permeating the space. As everything shifts, what emerges is a passage: a meditation on the fragility of existence.

In the sixth great mass mortality of the earth, humankind became extinct. Their technology had recently progressed so far as to deconstruct the algorithms of evolution and allow artificial life to develop on Earth.

At the end of the exhibition Step Out of the Strange Light, the musician Anika presents a video produced exclusively for the online program of the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein. Alone in the City accompanies Anika through the streets of Berlin and contains previously unreleased songs that were staged at numerous locations in cooperation with the nbk team. (nbk, 2021).

At the end of the exhibition Step Out of the Strange Light, the musician Anika presents a video produced exclusively for the online program of the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein. Alone in the City accompanies Anika through the streets of Berlin and contains previously unreleased songs that were staged at numerous locations in cooperation with the nbk team. (nbk, 2021).