Die Trauer der Tangente

The exhibition is based on Fabian Saul’s novel Die Trauer der Tangente, which explores loss, memory, and political mourning in all its complexity. For twelve days, the protagonists navigate the empty apartment of a deceased friend — a space where abandoned texts, music, films, and voices of the past reverberate. From this experience emerges a search for faint hope, for the possibility of a different future.

Here, grief is not understood as private coping but as a method of emphatic, polyphonic engagement with the world. The exhibition translates this search into an immersive space where voices, traces, and stories enter into dialogue with visitors. It creates a hybrid experience at the intersection of music, literature, activation, and collective knowledge-building. The book does not end with its publication — it opens up, becomes inhabitable, turns into conversation, and is continuously rewritten and reshaped by the hands of its readers.

The exhibition is a collaboration between Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst and zürich liest 2025.

Artistic Concept: Fabian Saul
Curation: Tasnim Baghdadi