It is all about the function of time as a factor in arts and culture. Nothing withstands time without change. Even the biblical metaphor, which the title of the work hints at, seems to be challenged. The text is no longer put in marble, but appears on the screen of a computer as a digital flicker.

Volker Rattemeyer 1997. Translated by e_CR editors

The first computer installation Gerz created dates back to 1971. It was made for the Maison de sciences de l'homme in Paris. In it, word and image are so very conceptually interwoven, i.e. the signifiers of the one and the other refer so closely to one another, that they almost seem to precipitate into a pun... In terms of a history of the genre, this work may well be one of the first of the installations using only computer generated images. The technical processes used to produce the work, together with the strict formal logic inherent in that production process, stand in sharp contrast to the allusion to the Last Supper ... which has a colossal existential dimension and forms the basis of the idea of transubstantiation. These two extremely disparate fields are brought into immediate contact and leave the viewer with a curious feeling of loneliness.

Friedemann Malsch 2002