Why Would A Water Vein Need To Find A Place To Die?
Gallery Rotor, Valand Academy, Gothenburg
28/3 - 6/4, 2014
Photos by Thomas Schön.
The title “Why Would a Water Vein Need to Find a Place to Die?” is phrased as a zen koan, a type of question that aims to provoke great doubt and test a student’s progress in their thinking practice.
The title is a question based on several false assumptions.
Water does not act in the form of veins, like in the animal body, but merely reacts to geological conditions. Water does not really act at all as it possesses no agency as a being. Water does not perish, it adapts, but also, it is true that all things fade.
If opposing ideas are held in the mind at the same time the concepts coalesce, knit together and asunder. The way seeing through a net is both an abstracting veil and a grid for measurement.
(A water vein would need to find a place to die because it keeps no place for death to enter)
middle of room:
Iron and anechoic foam rubber
Wood & wood stain.
42 x 172 x 12 cm.
Iron, copper wire, aluminium net, broken safety glass, plastic sheet, silicone & fluorescent lights.
110 x 60 cm.
Wood, ink, organza mesh bag, six antique Chinese copper coins and a 1968 english copy of the I-Ching
12 x 140 x 7 cm.
Eight window frames of wood, tar, double mosquito net, copper nails, fishing line, prisms of different sizes and a rock.
Steel, concrete, plexiglas, mdf & projector.
60x150x130 cm.
Super8 film loop transfered to digital video from inside 8mm projector.
57 sec loop.
57 sec loop.
Blue water lily (Nymphaea Caerulea) plant grown from seed, aquarium, mud, sand, air pump, water filtration system, fluorescent light, trestles, & radiator
120 x 140 x 70 cm.
Framed photopolymer prints in an edition of 7 (4 green & 3 black & white)
50x40 cm
