screen print on glass, tinted glass, objects on floor, 40×30 cm
installation views of the exhibition delicate entities
When you scan glass, you can’t see anything. Unless it is not intact. Only cracks in the glass make it recognisable as such in its materiality (see also Roland Barthes in Die helle Kammer). Cracks and fractures are barely recognisable at first glance. We are familiar with them from broken displays which don’t get 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.
Several thin pieces of glass were broken. The resulting structures were transferred to an intact piece of glass using serigraphy. The glasses now bear their broken state on the surface, as if they had already internalised their own end. memento mori. By visualising the final state, the glass itself becomes visible.
But the images printed in white or light grey disappear again in the light reflections on the smooth surface, so that nothing is actually visible. Only through the dark glass lying underneath the fractured structures become visible and build a strangely three-dimensional image when viewed at the right angle. As if the glass needed another one to see its own weak points. – without you i might not notice