Sweat
Polystyrene wall cladding, drywall profiles, retro-reflective fabric, stickers, timer-controlled construction spotlight
„Sweat“ is a research effort into the dealings of investment funds on the Berlin real estate market. Through the use of legal loopholes centered around the so-called „rent cap“, scare tactics and cheap but environmentally dubious materials, investment funds are making considerable gains by driving up the rent and square-meter prices in the city.
At the same time these funds are undertaking enormous efforts to remain invisible to the public eye. By combining self-defending materials, misleading surfaces and inconspicuous texts, „Sweat“ highlights different intentional and coincidental tactics and processes that work to camouflage the blunt intentions of a system bent on ever-increasing profits.
