DER KÖRPER WEISS BEFORE THE GEIST (2026 BCE)
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Der Körper weiß before the Geist
Matt-mirrored, chrome-glossy: surfaces, lines, objects. Black connectors with a technically-ornamental, Byzantine ground plan. Floating above joined surfaces that form a sculpture. The taps like beings that, as three-legged creatures, inhabit this architectural formation, sample it, and generate reflections within and through it. The architecture in the exhibition space, illuminated from above, turns it toward the outdoor area; the skylight becomes a square sun. A kind of mist, gelatin, membrane seems to generate around the object: not material, but purely through the mutual reflection in which the visitor does not see themselves. The angled structure, which does not allow passage, because of its inhabitation. – ordinary people…
DER KÖRPER WEISS BEFORE THE GEIST (2026 BCE)
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Der Körper weiß before the Geist
Matt-mirrored, chrome-glossy: surfaces, lines, objects. Black connectors with a technically-ornamental, Byzantine ground plan. Floating above joined surfaces that form a sculpture. The taps like beings that, as three-legged creatures, inhabit this architectural formation, sample it, and generate reflections within and through it. The architecture in the exhibition space, illuminated from above, turns it toward the outdoor area; the skylight becomes a square sun. A kind of mist, gelatin, membrane seems to generate around the object: not material, but purely through the mutual reflection in which the visitor does not see themselves. The angled structure, which does not allow passage, because of its inhabitation. – ordinary people…
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