Thomas Florschuetz: Anatomy of a Triptych

Sup­port for the ex­hi­bit­ion is pro­vi­ded by: IFA, Goe­the Ins­ti­tut, AB-AEGON, Sci­en­ti­fic, Re­se­arch and Cul­t­u­ral De­part­ment of Ber­lin Cura­ted by And­rea Regos Tho­mas Fl­orschu­etz di­rects the ca­me­ra´s lens to his own body. Cal­cu­lated dis­tan­ces bet­ween the lens and model re­sult in re­cords of body-parts as pho­to­gra­phs. This pro­cess trans­forms the human body, our clos­est be­long­ing, into an enig­ma­tic set of forms with the se­pa­ra­te parts of the body the syl­lab­les of an as yet unk­nown lan­gu­age. The lar­ger-than-life-size pho­to­gra­phs ex­po­se a range of ex­pe­ri­en­ce from the in­ti­macy of an eye­lid, hair or the de­li­ca­te lines of the human palm to the cold and in­dif­fe­rent eye of the mic­rosc­ope. The image of a wrist de­tached from both the fo­re­arm and the hand th­ro­ugh the close crop­ping of the pic­tu­re-frame ap­pe­ars to us as ab­surd, alien, even frigh­te­ning. Alt­ho­ugh we can usu­ally re­con­struct these frag­ments into their full unity we are left wit­ho­ut final sa­tis­fac­ti­on: our fee­ling of ali­e­na­ti­on for­ever re­ma­ins, ho­ver­ing over our body.
1998. December 16. - 1999. January 17.

Kunsthalle, Budapest

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