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Temporal Detours is less a title than a description of Thomas Geiger’s artistic working method. His performances take detours through history, imagine alternative presents, and project backward-looking visions of the future. Within these temporal shifts, he reveals the fragility of memory, responsibility, and narratives of progress.
In the video work Darkness, filmed in the former Altaussee salt mine, Geiger conducts an imaginary conversation with darkness itself. The site is historically charged: in the final months of the Second World War, the Nazi regime stored more than 6,500 looted artworks here. Darkness becomes a dialogue partner: is it merely an accomplice to the crimes, a passive witness, or does it hold the potential to preserve memory by making absence visible? Between present and past, a multilayered dialogue unfolds about concealment, forgetting, and responsibility.
In the adjoining room, a series of monotypes is on display in which Geiger has printed an excerpt from the…
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Temporal Detours is less a title than a description of Thomas Geiger’s artistic working method. His performances take detours through history, imagine alternative presents, and project backward-looking visions of the future. Within these temporal shifts, he reveals the fragility of memory, responsibility, and narratives of progress.
In the video work Darkness, filmed in the former Altaussee salt mine, Geiger conducts an imaginary conversation with darkness itself. The site is historically charged: in the final months of the Second World War, the Nazi regime stored more than 6,500 looted artworks here. Darkness becomes a dialogue partner: is it merely an accomplice to the crimes, a passive witness, or does it hold the potential to preserve memory by making absence visible? Between present and past, a multilayered dialogue unfolds about concealment, forgetting, and responsibility.
In the adjoining room, a series of monotypes is on display in which Geiger has printed an excerpt from the…
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