DIE UMKEHRUNG DER EXPLOSION
2010

5.4
Fictions on the room

The room has changed due to the light from outside falling in through the window panes. The light has accumulated on the wall / burnt into it. Discolourings, cicatrices, or proliferation / greenhouse effect.
The former exhibitions and mounted works have left their traces. Holes and mastic patchery, a transformation of the wall‘s topography. (The earth crust is arching. Plate shiftings, folding of the surface, formation of clefts. Eruptions, material is escaping.)
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Fiction 1 the indentation
The framing of the sheet is a sign to look at it.
It asks for a glance and lets it slide aside.

(Original text excerpts from: Korrespondenz gekürzt. Miriam Sturzenegger & Mariann Oppliger. Die Umkehrung der Explosion 2010. English translation: Miriam Sturzenegger)

Embossings on paper (continuous on A4 sheets), fluorescent tubes, walls and floor with found traces; booklet (unique copy, newspaper format) presented outside the space

Exhibition view: lokal.int, Biel, 2010