Dieser Film ist ein Geschenk

Daniel Spoerri makes artworks from found objects which lose their original function as soon as he integrates them into his work. Meeting the artist in his studio, a museum of discarded things, becomes an opportunity to tie his imagery back to these objects and to his biography. Spoerri, born Feinstein, is the son of a Romanian Jew who was deported and murdered. For the later founder of nouveau réalisme, Switzerland meant a new start. But the memories of a traumatic past carve their own trails: Salomonowitz also reveals Spoerri´s artistic practice as an attempt to confront the lost part of his family history.