Elvira Wersches sand performances essentially revolve around growth anddecay " as in desert landscapes that are moulded by the wind into ever-newformations and structures, which are in their turn eventually destroyed bysandstorms. At the end of her performance, the artist too mixes up thosesand structures that have been built up so laboriously, out ofdifferent-coloured types of sand from all parts of the world, and in thisway the image perishes; in fact it decays, in the proverbial manner, intodust. What makes this art unique is therefore not what remains and can belooked at, but what changes and can be experienced in its growth and decay.
