Gerz’s depiction is never impartial or emotionless. With unassailable precision it visualizes real things as if it referred to nothing else but their materiality. Their presence however is confronted with another one, and this second one with yet another, a third presence. The pictures of conditions, situations, sensitiveties - they all convey being - one from which we can feel we are excluded. It is the awareness of the other, which is being assessed. Emotions are triggered by the awareness of non-identity.

Georges Schlocker 1975. Translated by e_CR editors

To expose oneself, to bring oneself into play, to jeopardise and stress oneself until exhaustion is ultimately an answer which Gerz is increasingly willing to give in light of the evident division of art and life.

Peter Friese 1991. Translated by e_CR editors

Das sich Aussetzen, die eigene Person exemplarisch ins Spiel bringen, gefährden und bis zur Erschöpfung beanspruchen, ist schließlich eine Antwort, die Gerz mehr und mehr gegenüber der zu beobachtenden Trennung von Kunst und Leben zu formulieren bereit ist.

Peter Friese 1991.