552 Stunden – versenkt

[552 Hours – Sunk]

MW 30.01

Type

Date of Creation

1992

Dimensions

118 x 39 x 39 in. (300 x 100 x 100 cm)

Technique

Provenance

Remarks

Text: Maja Weyermann, c. 1992
23 Days Lying Sunk in Water.
Daily newspapers convey the feeling of participating in current events, of being “up to date” – which is why I took 23 daily newspapers as a symbol for the 23 days. They are the 23 days I needed to make the object – from the idea through to “completion”. The shape of a snail – like a nautilus in a petrifaction, only this time made of paper and ashes – a “slow” shape in “fast” material. Time turns like a spiral: everyone has their own. Somewhere it begins, making large, slow circles, but a force shifts the orbit inwards so that the circles become smaller and smaller; it seems to me that time is passing faster and faster, heading for a point in the middle. There it ends.