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    INTRODUCTION                                DOUBLE: NOSES, 2012, watercolour, charcoal on paper, 38 x 47 cm each



EINS UND ZWEI / ONE AND TWO comprises various

series of drawings I have been working on since 2010.

They owe to an ancient motif of the visual arts: the

trinity of the Body, the Self and the Other - duplicating

itself in the act of becoming.

In Corpus, Jean-Luc Nancy describes the body as an

'a-reality', an expanded being, unreal and real.

We are entirely contingent on our bodies, yet do not

find our Selves fully subsumed nor suspended within our

material presence; there is no possibly objectifying

distance between me and my body, a form informed by

so many almost almost symmetrical doubles.

While experiencing the body's needs and impulses from

within, we also perceive our corporeality from the outside,



as a spatially confined yet not quite sealed container,

an entity defined by its circumstances. Exchanging, repelling, devouring, and enfolding: there is a constant naming and moving going on between

the physical Self, the space and the bodies of others. To establish an idea of the Self, we always depend on a counterpart. Hence any image

of the body touches on questions of social identity, on the demarcations between myself and the others. Even though these acts of defining are

largely internalised, and performed inadvertently, as e.g. Judith Butler argues in her Bodies That Matter, for each individual the practice of distinction

remains ubiquitous, and it is never fully completed.

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EINS UND ZWEI I ONE AND TWO I	Introduction 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11




	INTRODUCTION					DOUBLE: NOSES, 2012, watercolour, charcoal on paper, 38 x 47 cm each
	EINS UND ZWEI / ONE AND TWO comprises various series of drawings I have been working on since 2010. They owe to an ancient motif of the visual arts: the trinity of the Body, the Self and the Other - duplicating itself in the act of becoming. In Corpus, Jean-Luc Nancy describes the body as an 'a-reality', an expanded being, unreal and real. We are entirely contingent on our bodies, yet do not find our Selves fully subsumed nor suspended within our material presence; there is no possibly objectifying distance between me and my body, a form informed by so many almost almost symmetrical doubles. While experiencing the body's needs and impulses from within, we also perceive our corporeality from the outside,

		as a spatially confined yet not quite sealed container, an entity defined by its circumstances. Exchanging, repelling, devouring, and enfolding: there is a constant naming and moving going on between the physical Self, the space and the bodies of others. To establish an idea of the Self, we always depend on a counterpart. Hence any image of the body touches on questions of social identity, on the demarcations between myself and the others. Even though these acts of defining are largely internalised, and performed inadvertently, as e.g. Judith Butler argues in her Bodies That Matter, for each individual the practice of distinction remains ubiquitous, and it is never fully completed.