Grave Choir, 2025
Plaster teeth, wood cabinet, cardboard ouija, bones, hair, metal hangers and disco lamp. Variable measures

Grave Choir is an installation composed of hundreds of plaster teeth, arranged like silent grave markers – remnants of resistance and identity. A slowly rotating planchette atop a Ouija board evokes voices of the unburied past, summoning those whose lives and loves were erased. The work references the material afterlife of teeth and bones – the final remains of persecuted bodies, especially during the Holocaust. It confronts the resurgence of hatred in the present: homophobia, femicide, and systemic violence.

Through layered symbolism, mechanical movement and haunting stillness, Winkler’s installation becomes a séance space – not to mourn, but to remember and resist. It is an urgent reminder that the social apocalypse has already happened. What we choose to do now, together, determines what remains.