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Rebecca Mertens

Born in Düsseldorf, Germany in 1976.

Rebecca Mertens wrote her biography by herself during a term of imprisonment. This biography exerted a strong influence on the character and method of compiling a dry, strictly factual biography, which was developed with participants of projects that followed, referred to as the “matrix method”.

Biography

Bramscher Straße, Osnabrück, Germany

As an infant, or as a toddler, I might be sexually abused

Natruper-Tor-Wall, Osnabrück, Germany

At age 3, I am for the first time being treated by a therapist

Eberleplatz, Haste, Osnabrück, Germany

At age 6, the police bring me home for the first time

Bramscher Straße, Osnabrück, Germany

At age 9, I start being sexually abused

Pagenstecherstraße, Osnabrück, Germany

At age 10, I start drinking

Neumarkt, Innenstadt, Osnabrück, Germany

At age 12, I play truant a lot and stay away from home nights on end

Am Kartel, Schweicheln-Bermbeck, Hiddenhausen, Germany

At age 14, I am sent to a youth home

Schinkel, Osnabrück, Germany

At age 16, I shoot heroin

Neumarkt, Innenstadt, Osnabrück, Germany

At age 18, I am taken into custody

Johann-Kühn-Straße, Gröpelingen, Bremen, Germany

At age 24, I enter therapy

An der Propstei, Vechta, Germany

At age 25, I quit therapy and go back on heroin

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.

THE ISOLATED SPACE

THE PUBLIC SPACE

(no the public space spaces)

THE CULTURAL SPACE

(no the cultural space spaces)