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This is how it really happened

Courtesy Galerie Georg Kargl, Wien
Courtesy Galerie Georg Kargl, Wien
Courtesy Galerie Georg Kargl, Wien
Courtesy Galerie Georg Kargl, Wien
This is how it really happened
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    • This is how it really happened
  • 2010
  • slide installation, various materials
  • 400 × 450 × 250 cm
This work is an installation [...] consisting of two circular fabrics hanging from the ceiling, creating two cylindrical spaces that intersect with one another. A projector is located on a pivoting platform. They rotate step by step in a semicircle synchronously with the images projected. The two slide projectors each show different cycles of images that repeat in an endless loop. The images in the first semicircle focus on the projector itself. Its movement and the constant change of perspective resulting from the rotating platform can also be found in the sequence of the projected images. This means that the projector can always be seen in its actual momentary position. Ján Mančuška here pursues an ontological approach, the projector as an object points toward itself and its truth. The medium itself, as it were, becomes an agent. The second series of images are photographs that emerged in collaboration with the photographer Martin Polak. Here, we can see different collage-like arrangements of everyday objects, like pencils, glasses, paper, and plates. Without any recognizable context, sentence fragments and words appear on and between these objects, and it is left to the beholder to make a link between them. J.W.