Blue Blanket, (2024)

In the work Blue Blanket, a careful staging with a deliberate selection of objects based on models from life
becomes both a walk-in room installation and a photographed tableau.

The project is based on the participation and cooperation of those involved, who share their knowledge of
their own living space, select objects, grant access and arrange further contacts. “Blue Blanket” constructs a
‘spacious Frankfurt living room’ and a ‘Frankfurt homeless dwelling’ from the encounters with the methods
of ethnography and image analysis. The walk-in space invites visitors to actively search for clues, as behind
the individual objects and materials are lenders from the Frankfurt area with their stories and relationships
to their objects. Nolle works with great meticulousness and sensitivity and encounters the respective “value
of things” in the process. Collected artifacts such as shopping carts, an old baby carriage, a sleeping bag,
blue blankets, various bags filled with bottles and empty food boxes, stand next to high-quality furniture,
design classics, bar trolleys with the finest liqueurs, art, books and exquisite knick-knacks in the room. The
associated olfactory worlds also come together directly.
In Blue Blanket, a possibly recognizable but fictional living situation is created in individual aspects. This is
reinforced by AI-generated family images of a “Frankfurt educated middle-class family”, which are inserted
into the staged private space. In its citing methodology, “Blue Blanket” is a continuation of Nolle's
conceptual approach of bringing together realities that are drifting apart - the “house of the homeless in
the house of the rich”.
In collaboration with Ari Schruth (stage design), the realization was created for the exhibition space in the
Museum Giersch at Goethe University Frankfurt for the exhibition “OUR HOUSE.

Text: Miriam Zlobinski