PUSH AND GO · 2018 Museum für Fotokopie | Makroscope Zentrum für Kunst und Technik, Mülheim/R., DE
PUSH AND GO · 2018 Museum für Fotokopie | Makroscope Zentrum für Kunst und Technik, Mülheim/R., DE
Between image and word there is an instant.
So brief that it escapes being held.
So enduring that it leaves behind a memory.
The two photocopiers transmit the words PICTURES and WORDS to one another within the span of one-thirtieth of a second. Light becomes language. Language becomes image. Each appears only to vanish in the very moment of its appearance.
The space begins to pulse.
Through the altered light of the photocopiers, the illusion of abrupt movement emerges. The machines seem to free themselves from their own weight. Nothing actually moves except the certainty of the observer. The eye searches for stability and finds only the next pulse of light.
Between the monitors and the photocopiers, a space unfolds in which neither image nor word claims precedence. They circle one another, provoking, contradicting, and completing each other at once.
Perhaps perception begins precisely where the distinction between seeing and reading dissolves.
Smoke Cigars reflects on the transience of what we call reality. Images pass by. Words follow. Both leave traces that begin to disappear at the very moment they come into being—like cigar smoke, visible only as it slowly dissolves into air.
Catalogue:
Medium Photographie
Manipulation der Wirklichkeit als Erinnerungshilfe
Rosy Beyelschmidt - Kunsthalle zu Kiel, 1993
ISBN: 3-923701-568-6
