Propellers and Propositions (2024)

Vinyl, closed-circuit video camera, HD monitor. Floor section: H 330 x 183 cm, wall section: H 15 x 32 cm.

There are twisted and morphed ‘propositions’ resembling propellors lying lightly on a bed frame that is not even there (it is a projected, anamorphic drawing). Where Wittgenstein privileged emptiness, this room is explored for its kinesthetic potential, levity and occupation of the whole space, right up to the ceiling, like a proun installation, a Kafkan metamorphosis of space. Some of these profess to be sculptures of Wittgenstein’s precisely laid-out propositions, but they actually invoke entanglement in them, exhibiting curvatures that contradict his architectural logic and aesthetic of straight lines and edges. Simon Harvey, departures, homecomings (Danielle Arnaud Gallery - Excerpts from the Exhibition Text)