installation
200 x 170 x 150 cm
2019
Since this work contains a self-portrait, this philosophical question was asked very concretely because it allows a distinction to be made between the questioning subject and the object to which the question refers. So here, too, I am on the one hand the represented, but on the other hand the representational.
I am also interested in questions like: How does a canvas work in the absence of its image? What is the main effect of a white canvas? Or: What happens if the actual picture takes place outside the picture? Isn't "outside" again "inside" a bigger one?
"Inside" and "outside" are expressions referring to the spatial or temporal. Space is only recognizable by its boundary - just as silence can only be perceived by the absence of noise. So one can say from space that it does not exist in itself - it exists only the non-space that defines the perceived space. Perception, in turn, is subject to time; only through temporal expansion can we recognize the world - if only because light needs a certain amount of time to reach our eyes. Time and space are therefore mutually dependent. If space does not exist, what can be said about time? The past is over, the future is not yet there, the present has no temporal extension, because as soon as the present is defined as such, it belongs to the past again. It follows from this that time is an intellectual concept and does not exist as such. Space and time - a product of our imagination. Who am I then?
"Je est un autre" - Arthur Rimbaud
