How does history echo in the present? What kinds of latent power do objects and architectural forms retain? How do these remnants shape our collective consciousness?

In a solo exhibition at the Felix Nussbaum Haus, artist Ariel Reichman takes on these questions, as he uses the work of Felix Nussbaum–a German-Jewish Surrealist  painter who was persecuted and killed by the Nazis–as a point of departure. The work of Felix Nussbaum– serves as a departure point for Ariel Reichman’s solo exhibition at the Felix Nussbaum Haus  The exhibition features a series of new metal sculptures and photographic works based on found Nazi memorabilia, which Ariel methodically transforms and recontextualizes. In this body of work, Ariel unravels the charged history of the artifacts he collects, the insidious nature of propaganda they hold, and the calculated economic system in which objects were used to influence independent thought. Such small acts, in conjunction with the context of the show, offer a sincere reflection of similar mechanisms that are at work today.