The poet Veza Canetti (1897— 1963) lived in the house in Ferdinandstraße 29, near the former “Leopoldstädter Tempel” — the center of Jewish life before ist destruction in 1938 for more than 20 years (1897—1963). As part of the art project VEZALEBT — Veza Canetti, ein spätes Jubiläum (Vezalives — Veza Canetti, a late anniversary) the sign VEZA fehlt (Veza Is Missing) was projected in sight distance at the fire wall of the house at Tempelgasse 12, above the Veza Canetti Park. It is based on the ellipsis and refers to Veza Canetti’s novel Yellow Street, which portrays life in Ferdinandstraße, the street of the leather merchants, in the 1930s: “It is a remarkable street… All sorts of people live there, cripples, somnambulists, lunatics, the desperate and the smug.”

In German-language proofing marks, the letter V with a dash through it marks something missing, a double dash means that something essential is missing. So the sign VEZA fehlt designates the missing presence of a whole person: VEZA. Similar to the Yellow Street, the double dash stretched across all the four letters and at the same time completed them. In addition, the term “Veza” means in Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian which are spoken a lot around Ferdinandstraße today, exactly this: connection.