THE SUN SETS ALONG THE WAY (I DIVERGE), 2024

installation for Mov.ing in at Galerie Ursula Walter, July 18-28, 2024

A video work is deconstructed in its elements of image, text and sound, which are then reunited as an installation of three works. Two contrasting perspectives are juxtaposed - de-localisation and localisation. You find yourself in a generically empty interior between the two-channel projection. The soundscape of the city and church bless in the distance are  to be heard on headphones. ‘Where the sun comes up and down each day (East), 2023’ observes the daily movement of the sun relative to the viewer’s stable view point set in a pictorial space of distance and endless expanse. From the opposite perspective, in ‘Out of Gravity (Flicker), 2024’, the viewer moves around the earth in absolute placelessness.

The book ‘Take me home and hold me close (to your heart), 2024’ is set in this exact type of in between space: it poses the question of a reference point as a place to which one would fall back in free fall. The physical observation of time and gravitational fields becomes an allegory for an introspection of feelings of dislocation, the question of home as a point of relation in the constant in-between and the continous longing caused by spatial distance. The text describes the experience of apparent weightlessness in an airplane and develops a series of thought images:  Thinking space as time, breaking out of the linearity of time and recognising time as a relationship between the things.