Anni 安妮

We are all rubbles of time
don’t turn your face against the past,
and let history repeat itself.

1-5, Mark Dion, Tate Thames Dig, 1999

6. Walter Benjamin, German Jewish critic and philosopher, “Über den Begriff der Geschichte/On the Concept of History”

7. Paul Klee, Angelus Novus, 1920

8. Benjamin writing on Klee’s Angelus Novus and his view on historical process, in his ninth thesis of his 1940 essay “Theses on the Philosophy of History”. Benjamin refers Klee’s work as an image of the angel of history.

Benjamin purchased Angelus Novus in 1921. He brought it with him everywhere he lived, including during his exile in Spain and France. In September 1940 Benjamin committed suicide in a small hotel room in Spain during an attempt to flee the Nazi regime.