format
The artwork is an edition of 3, built for outside use
credits
special thanks to:
Marco Hompes, director of the Kunstmuseum Heidenheim
Thomas Jentsch, Stadtbibliothek Heidenheim
absract
The installation is a light sign of eight letters, centrally situated in the entrance hall of the Heidenheim’s public library in Germany, and visible through the entrance windows from the public space, day and night. The words displayed are depending on a process that randomly generates one letter after another, and simultaneously checks the existence of their respective combinations in a dictionary. If not existing, the process restarts from scratch until a word is found. The average time needed to generate an eight letter word is around four hours, theoretically between one second and infinity. This writing process replaces the traditional narrative with a logical system leading to a playful approach on the edge of sense and nonsense. The work inscribes itself in the tradition of concrete poetry, pointing to an agnostic vision that involves the viewer’s interpretation and associations.
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history
before its aquisation the work has been shown in:
2021 --- X, group show
Frac des Pays de la Loire, curatorship Claude Closky
since then the edition two is shown:
2024 --- writing, painting, calculating, transcoding, solo-show
DAN Galeria, Sao Paulo