In his latest series of works entitled 1000 Odysseen Winfried Muthesius (b. 1957) uses his
photographs to explore the globally divisive topics of refugeeism and displacement. The artist
who lives and works in Berlin and Cape Verde photographed items washed ashore on the remote
beaches of the Cape Verde islands. These disturbingly poetic images for the most part show
details of damaged or destroyed flip-flops-the simple footwear of people living in poverty. In
the exhibition at the Stiftung Christliche Kunst Wittenberg Muthesius enters into a dialogue
with Oskar Kokoschka's piece Rest on the Flight into Egypt using this example to evoke
humankind's long history of flight and exile. This book features numerous images from the
series with hitherto unpublished drawings by the artist images of works from his broken gold
series as well as texts by Pia Beckmann Christhard-Georg Neubert and an interview with
Winfried Muthesius.