The second volume in a series, this book is published on the occasion of the exhibition ‘Choses tuées’ (“things killed”) by gerlach en koop at Temporary Gallery, Cologne. The first volume appeared when the same – but not quite the same – exhibition was presented at de Appel arts centre in Amsterdam. Designed by Louis Lüthi, the book features exhibition views and several texts by a number of contributors. Regina Barunke, for instance, writes, “Aside from its poetical effect the title is simultaneously a decisive moment in accessing the works and their thematic occupation. […] Its ambivalence… allows ‘killed’ things to emerge from ‘silent’ things in blunt and subtle casualness.”