Elvira Wersche’s sand performances essentially revolve around growth and
decay – as in desert landscapes that are moulded by the wind into ever-new
formations and structures, which are in their turn eventually destroyed by
sandstorms. At the end of her performance, the artist too mixes up those
sand structures that have been built up so laboriously, out of
different-coloured types of sand from all parts of the world, and in this
way the image perishes; in fact it decays, in the proverbial manner, into
dust. What makes this art unique is therefore not what remains and can be
looked at, but what changes and can be experienced in its growth and decay.