Original artwork description:

84x64 cm | Filler, oak panel

Like all my works, this is about the relationship between language and matter. All semantic activity is based on the possibility of dissecting, of distinguishing one from the other. But where the image as an expression of language is bound to a spatial delimitation, a frame if you will, the text is, to a greater extent, limited temporally. It is dependent on a timeframe, a beginning and an end. You may call it a narrative.
But what's paradoxical about this notion is that it is simultaneously impossible without a continuation. We must presuppose a new narrative that picks up where the previous one ends. The ultimate end, death as the end of time itself, is impossible to fully grasp and comprehend in a cognitive, semantic way. Language is thus limited to what exists physically because the "non-existent", before and after the beginning and end of time, is outside the temporal domain of language. The constant division, where one narrative replaces the other, must continue forever.
This level can be described with psychoanalytic theory as the Imaginary. An absolute semantic register without ground in the physical matter, i.e. the language as existing before it is used. The use of language introduces the cut itself, the division of physical reality, where one is separated from the other, and the temporal division of a before and an after. This does not exist in the matter before language enters. The purely material dimension outside of language is described by psychoanalytic theory as the Real. The Symbolic, where the conscious human subject resides, is thus closest to being described as a TV series or soap opera, forever To be continued...

Materials used:

Filler (coarse and fine) in oak frame

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