Maria von Bank
Born in Heimberg, Switzerland in 1962.
Biography
Teufenerstrasse, Bühler, Switzerland
I am the unwanted child of my loveless mother
Herrmoos, Bühler, Switzerland
At age 5, I suffer from my father’s violence, violence imposed by my mother
Im Hölzli, St. Gallen, Switzerland
At age 6, the school confirms my hyperactivity
Stofelweid, Teufen, Switzerland
At age 7, I suffer from loneliness and start drinking my parents’ alcohol
Goliathgasse, St. Gallen, Switzerland
At age 8, my brother is sent to reform school
Bohl, St. Gallen, Switzerland
At age 13, I find comfort with friends and smoke hashish and marihuana with them, and take LSD
Via Gerolamo Porta, Chiasso, Switzerland
At age 15, a friend gives me my first shot of morphine
Bahnhofplatz, St. Gallen, Switzerland
At age 15, my parents put me out in the street
Corso Enrico Pestalozzi, Lugano, Switzerland
At age 16, I shoot heroin and morphine
Sankt Leonhard-Strasse, St. Gallen, Switzerland
At age 17, I start school at the wish of my parents and am expelled because of my drug addiction
Bohl, St. Gallen, Switzerland
At age 19, I also use cocaine, tranquillisers, and medicine
Spitalstrasse, Herisau, Switzerland
At age 21, my mentally retarded son is born
Von Erlachweg, Hindelbank, Switzerland
At age 22, I am detained and lose, through my parents’ intervention, the custody of my child
Waldheimstrasse, Bern, Switzerland
At age 22, I am in love with a woman, use fewer drugs, and escape from prison
Langstrasse, Zurich, Switzerland
At age 24, I fall back into polytoxicomaniacal drug abuse and deal hashish to finance my addiction
Rosenbergstrasse, St. Gallen, Switzerland
At age 27, I use no drugs apart from methadone in oder to get two planned children
Bahnhofplatz, St. Gallen, Switzerland
At age 32, I relapse into drug abuse with my boyfriend and have my children placed in a foster home
Davidstrasse, St. Gallen, Switzerland
At age 38, I live in fatal dependence of a man and of drugs
Grünhaldenstrasse, St. Gallen, Switzerland
At age 40, I am homeless, and live in shelters or on the streets
Davidstrasse, St. Gallen, Switzerland
At age 42, my boyfriend forces me into prostitution and I stab him
Teufener Strasse, St. Gallen, Switzerland
At age 43, I break down and am committed to a psychiatric hospital
Von Erlachweg, Hindelbank, Switzerland
At age 44, I am taken into custody
Von Erlachweg, Hindelbank, Switzerland
At age 45, I fear dreams that announce my death
Related spaces
The conceptual architecture of TBDWBAJ is based on the investigation of various social spaces, isolated space, cultural space, public space and virtual space. Each of these rooms describes a phase of the project and takes on a different perspective.