glazed ceramic, epoxy resin
40 x 30 x 20 cm
2022
steel
160 x 25 x 1 cm
2022
The work constellation of two objects refers to the narration of Empedocles who (around 450 BC) imagines breathing as cutaneous, for the inhaled air would enter through the blood vessels, whilst the blood would withdraw and vice versa in the process of exhaling. This mechanism is compared to the function of a clepsydra, an ancient water carrier, which can transport water as long as one keeps the opening closed. In his story, it is „the young girl" who is able to discover the failure of this tool; with its curious playfulness it is able to hold the water — and as well to agree on watching it slipping all away.
In re-telling the story, the narration of physiology — a Western scientific narration that delineates where human bodies begin and end, what they consist of and how they function — are put on stake; dysfunctions are understood as a potential to test other possibilities of exchange and interplay.