With the defeat of the democratic and progressive ideals that animated modernism, and with the success of the “Economic Miracle” promoted by the dictatorship, the path to emancipation seemed closed. At the same time, the dictatorship of the market and wild capitalism began to destroy cities, their spaces of sociability and the marks of their recent past. In this context, Gerda seems to ask herself: what is the human, the inhuman, the inhuman? In an enigmatic and ironic way, her work elaborates images of a certain lost paradise and a sociability held back by the victory of technobureaucratic reason.