Mercedes Matrix
Krass Kultur Crash Festival, Hamburg
2019

Mercedes Matrix is a performance in which Selma Selman destroys a Mercedes Benz in order to separate the valuable parts from the unusable ones, a typical survival strategy in the Roma community. Here the performative act becomes physical work. Selma Selman addresses her family’s traditional practice as a ritual of transformation. Mercedes Matrix was a production of the KRASS Festival 2018. The car was dismantled on the Kampnagel Piazza.