Paintings for orange light
Ochre from Roussillon, linen, silk, metal, projection, cucumber essence which was made over 3 months to infuse the exhibition space, pvc foil
2018
Notion of tastelessness
Dear François Jullien quotes: ‚To strive to achieve extraordinary things, so that following generations will have something of me to talk about, this I will avoid by all means.‘
The cucumber which is sometimes eaten between the dishes to neutralize your taste is comparable to a pause which holds the promise of duration and continuity. It meets the mouth in transparent silence. On the ‚island of the hundred-years-old’ people love to eat a specific cucumber which is called Goya. It is 20–30 cm long, oblong with bluntly tapering ends and pale green in color, with a gently undulating, warty surface. The cucumber more typical of India has a narrower shape with pointed ends, and a surface covered with jagged, triangular teeth. It is green to white in color. Between these two extremes are any number of intermediate forms.
In slight amazement I think of the cucumber’s skin, a vessel for liquid. When cut open, it enables me to experience a ‚there‘, that is spoken forcefully. I make some essence out of it which I spread onto the belongings of my apartment, considering that maybe everyone would wish to come home to a house where it smells like simple fresh-cut cucumber.