Because The Spirits /There is Nothing More Dangerous. 2015 / 2022

On the floor is a roll of brown wrapping paper covered in a meticulously handwritten text which sees Ehlers repeat a fictional interview between rappers Tupac Shakur and Kendrick Lamar from Lamar’s song ‘Mortal Man’ from 2015: ‘Because the spirits, we ain't even really rappin', we just letting our dead homies tell stories for us,’ proclaims Shakur. Lamar responds to the late Shakur in his fictional dialogue: ‘I wanted to read one last thing to you (...)’, taking Shakur’s reflection on being a mouthpiece for deceased friends and enslaved ancestors as the foundation of his song.

A TV screen placed on the floor in one corner shows a video collage accompanied by the sound of Martin Luther King’s voice: ‘There is nothing more dangerous than to build a society with a large segment of people in that society who feel that they have no stake in it; who feel that they have nothing to lose. People who have a stake in their society protect that society, but when they don’t have it, they unconsciously want to destroy it.’