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An attempt at exhausing a place from my window
2020-21

An attempt at exhausting a place from my window is a series of 26 unique coffee prints made over the course of one year, through four different seasons. The prints are abstracted variations of a landscape of Lake Zürich from a window of the artist’s home (in Rapperswil-Jona). It draws reference from a book by Georges Perec titled An attempt at exhausting a place in Paris (1982), which is a list of often overlooked observations that Perec wrote as he sat for hours in a coffeeshop in Paris, observing the insignificant happenings of day to day life. Similarly, this series is an exploration of the various possibilities of looking at a single landscape - some days with focus on the trees, other days the islands, boats, houses, mountains, or moon. Using coffee ink as the main medium, which is a material that inevitably fades overtime, it aptly encapsulates the changing nature of a landscape.

This work has been exhibited at AlteFabrik Rapperswil as part of Grosse Regionale 2021.