Seri „Bagatelle“ trash bin, found pedestal, valet, fur coat, Mon Chéri, used perfume test strips, business cards, movie theater and opera tickets, exhibition brochure, sticker, porcelain dog, cedar oil, tomato vine fragrance, dimensions variable
For my graduation, I made an installation consisting of four main elements. Three visible, one only detectable by smell. They were spread across the room, which we grossly left untouched after it was handed over to us. It was important to Martin, who I shared the space throughout the examination and exhibition days with, and myself to treat the room as an autonomous element of the show, that could change and bring its own character. We cleaned the big windows and left them open for the duration of two weeks. The ceiling lights remained switched off. Both, the works and their positions in the space changed so much throughout the installation process, increasingly merging with their surroundings, that on the floor plan we merely marked respective zones, rather than rigid positions. Instead of individual titles, we chose to quote from texts that had accompanied us in the months leading up to this moment as a mutual offering to visitors of the show:
How to make my eyes see spring as a time zone
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My body follows me around asking for things
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An alphabet, like a life, is a finite set of shapes. With it,
one can produce almost everything.
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Like a monogram, broadcasting to the world what holds you
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I wanna wear your clothes when you‘re gone
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Everyone arrives one day and asks, is this it? And the
stars answer back with more stars.
(Excerpts from writings by: Kaveh Akhbar, Victoria Chang,
Graham Epstein and Justine Dorsey)