Zitronen, Wal, Seife

The soap follows the shape of the hands and becomes a lemon which be-comes a whale in order to turn into a soap and disappear. The raw materials turn into natural recognisable shapes in order to disappear and change into another form. Each image becomes a word within a story of transformation and memory. Ponge’s reference to the soap as a “Chinese fish” that flips out of one’s hand mirrors the appearance and disappearance of the image, as the full meaning stays impossible to grasp.