The قصيدة (Kasside) is one of the most famous forms of poetry from pre-Islamic times, usually containing many verses of artistic and martial self-praise and vilification of the enemy. The Victory Gate in Munich, which was destroyed by the Allies and turned into a war memorial in the years that followed, does little to fulfill this purpose; the still intact triumphal arch and the rebuilt quadriga are more reminiscent of a monument to resilience. While the gate itself shows little insight, the fragments of the Victory Gate, which lie in an inconspicuous alley near the city museum in an open-air museum, exude a strange Cartesian power - human fragments emerge from the objects, which from certain angles look almost like chunks of stone. They show sword handles, hands and feet, helmets and flowing clothes. They are like a vague reminder of humanity, of its poetic and violent nature. The one-hour video work shows them in all their brute force and vulnerability. Like the mysterious so-called sailing stones in Death Valley National Park, they leave long grinding tracks behind them. In a photograph, they might look like hurtling boulders, but the film reveals their slow nature. Like human beings, the fragments are in an almost illusory state of frenzied standstill and thus become metaphors for the impermanence and senselessness of military monuments of megalomania. A cautious change of symbols takes place calmly and unagitatedly.

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