<<soleil-journal>>/ 2024
video sculpture; 4-channel video (55’’ 4K monitors), stereo sound 17’08’’ loop, steel construction and sand/ the work has developed from a story about a solar powered printing press*, using this event as a model in treating subjects of circulation, automation, abstraction and finance. four monitors oscillate in their position as objects of input/ output and the imagery show a newspaper printing facility, as well as letterpress types, but also microscopic footage of a silicon wafer (electronic chip). The text which appear as if being a live script for the visual sequence, highlight notions of determinism, acceleration, exhaustion and economy – at one point interrupted by the blue night, the screens become ‘animated’, releasing internal desires to play. The sound track applies repetition and disintegration, partly deconstructing an old recording of Wagner’s ‘Rheingold’; an orchestra gradually tearing and scrambling into techno/ installation views, inter arts center, malmö, 2024/
* in 1882, abel pifre held a public demonstration in paris, showcasing his invention; a concave mirror-measuring well over 3 meters in diameter- was directed towards the sky, to heat up a steam boiler which in turn powered a marinoni printer. at a speed of roughly 500 copies/ hour, pifre went on to print a publication which he had named ‘soleil-journal’, an edition of which, today, there seems to be no trace or further details about.
