Reed Still's exhibition lays bare the labour required to sustain one's own life, and makes it the starting point for a comedy of class relations: those who own no property remain trapped in an endless cycle of makeshift arrangements.
In a ground-floor passageway, a professionally framed document hangs on the wall: The Sublet presents a temporary sublease that many Berliners will know all too well. Since the 2010s, the housing crisis in the capital has grown dramatically worse. Berlin as a place of affordable, creative coexistence and work for international artists now appears more than anachronistic. Rather, every centimetre of space is being fought over. New forms of sharing are indeed emerging, in which one's own living space is temporarily handed over to strangers – yet these are by no means altruistic or even emancipatory gestures, but strategies of survival; or the possibility of monetising even the shortest absence.