screen print on glass, tinted glass, objects on floor, 40×30 cm
installation views of the exhibition delicate entities
When you scan glass, you don’t see anything. Unless the glass is not intact. It is only the cracks in the glass that make it recognisable as such in its materiality (see Roland Barthes ). Cracks and fractures are barely visible at first glance. We know them from broken displays that aren’t repaired. They are often like drawings. Boundaries that show where something is no longer complete. Where the weak points were and where something new begins.
In this work, several thin pieces of glass have been broken. The resulting structures were transferred to an intact piece of glass using screen printing. The glasses now bear their broken state on the surface, as if they had already internalised their own end. By visualising it’s final state, the glass itself becomes visible.
But the images printed in white or light grey disappear in the light reflections on the smooth surface, so that nothing is actually visible. It is only through the dark glass underneath that the fractured structures become visible, creating a strangely three-dimensional image when viewed at the right angle. As if the glass needed another one to see its own weaknesses. – without you i might not notice