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The Work Can Be Finished at Any Moment

The Work Can Be Finished at Any Moment
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    • The Work Can Be Finished at Any Moment
  • 1976
  • felt-tip pen on paper
  • 29,6 × 21,1 cm
In many of his 1970s works, Boris Demur used written phrases to delineate his thoughts about art, its presentation, its interpretation, and its social reverberations. He repeated, multiplied, shuffled, and arranged these texts in several formats and sizes. The phrase “The work can be finished at any moment,” for example, was also used in several other constellations—including one of the exhibition-actions at the Gavella Drama Theater in 1977, being part of the following textual complex: “All suppositions of creating an allusion or symbol, using an idea or materials have been eliminated by this work. The work can be finished at any moment, the work can be finished at any moment, the wo… The reason this work was created was an attitude. The reason this work exists is the possibility of this attitude spreading into the critical domain, fact, work explains itself because a fact is a fact. A fact is not manipulative. A fact is not illustrative. A fact is not illusionist. A fact is not symbolic. Fact = a fact.” W.S.