Marcel Odenbach - Das Lamm

The idea of printing the motif on a handkerchief is ultimately a reference to the Shroud of Turin, another Catholic symbol. In particular, it also refers to his earlier installation All the best comes from above from 2005, in which the likeness of the Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie could be seen on 150 handkerchiefs laid out on the floor (shown in the exhibition Ethiopia and Germany in the GRASSI Museum of Ethnology , Leipzig and Goethe-Institut Addis Ababa, 2006). In doing so, he reflected on the appearance of the emperor, who liked to see himself as the "Lord of the Lords" and let such cloths rain down from the sky after feeding the poor.