Sun-Sun
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- Sun-Sun
- 1978-1979
- 2 b&w photographs mounted on paper
- each 18 x 24,3 cm
Karel Miler’s performance "Sun-Sun" was one of his final body-related works, an action in which the artist chose an outdoor location as opposed to his previous actions in rather confined spaces where wall and floor surfaces had often served as props that became essential parts of the performances. Miler’s doubling of the word in the title emphasizes the homonymy of “sun” with the word “son.” And with his choice of a public site situated in a vast, empty, and almost endless-seeming environment, Miler’s photographically captured bodily gestures relate to the direct connections between the sun and the earth. The body thus operates as the mediator between the two, able through its various motions to attach to the ground as well as rise up towards the sky. W.S.