Arnhem felt like an open-air museum to artist and writer Michael Blum. When visiting Arnhem, he discovered many monuments in the city, and they almost all remember the Battle of Arnhem. After September 1944, Arnhem clearly moved one, erasing the traces of World War II. Blum concluded it would be good to better incorporate these traces.

For SONSBEEK '16, Michael placed memorial stones on twelf memorable spots in Arnhem. Different stories were brought to light by these black, granite stones. They told unknown stories about familiar and less familar people and places.

Based in Montreal, Michael works on re-writing historical stories. He is known for turning familiar facts upside down. His approach is similar to that of a journalist, a scientist, historian, and a detective. From Lombok to Klarendal, and Presikhaaf, these monuments reveal a new Arnhem, that cannot be found in school books, tourist guides, and history as we know it. The stories on the stones combine history, facts, and speculation.