Original artwork description:

84x64 cm | Filler, oak frame

Passwords are secrets that we share with the material world. Through these secrets, we can fence off part of the shared reality and make it private. The private spheres function as a mediator between the atomised subject and the material Real. Without it, the subject would seize to exist, like a celebrity fully emerged in its public persona. The last resort of privacy is one's mind. In psychoanalysis, you try to find and express certain hidden keywords, or truths about yourself, and thus open up new areas of knowledge in your mind previously inaccessible.
Language always contains secret pathways, and sometimes finding the right words, or pushing the right buttons, is what opens up communication and bridges the distance between people.

Materials used:

Filler (coarse and fine) in oak frame

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