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A curtain is a relatively large vertical surface in relation to the room in which it is hanging and to the persons inside. Usually it is larger than the opening of the wall, larger than the cutout of what is behind, of what is to be covered and unveiled by the curtain. In doing so, it dangles, it drops top down, perpendicular to the architecture which builds the room. Light illuminates the curtain as if it was a painting. It seeps right through the material to the other side behind it; one might conceive that image on its reverse side while standing in front of the curtain. Folded, tied, shaped, and falling, the curtain has an effect on the sunlight entering the room, and in this regard it changes the moods and relationships between the elements within. This and the fact that a curtain, like every element of a room, changes continuously with time, brings its natural qualities into play and creates distance to its description, to the process of writing, to one's personal style, and to the experiments of avoiding expression. (2017)
Constanze Schweiger, Untitled (Halbes Wiener Kastenfenster), 2016 Curcuma and paprika on canvas, 120 × 135 cm Part of the exhibition Schneidig#1 |