Speaking of Her

For his inside projections, he uses the objectifying mirror of the outside.

Detlef Blümler 1989. Translated by e_CR editors

Bei seinen Bespiegelungen des Innen nimmt er die objektivierende Reflexion des Außens zu Hilfe.

Detlef Blümler 1989.

“I'm interested in the non-visual intermediate zone … which is neither text nor image”. Gerz demonstrates this absence of interlocking in communication by various activities - a conversation in two languages in which the partners do not understand each other's language, the exchange of objects which only find their place in a subjective spectrum of meaning so that the act of exchanging does not correspond to a simple communicative act. Here, understanding always requires the ability to emphasize and an imaginative capability. In contrast to politically involved artists of the 60's and 70's who considered art as a weapon to be wielded in the everyday debates in the arena of social policy, Gerz pursues a more radical approach by continually calling communications systems into question not as neutral instruments but as elements of an existing order.

Hans-Werner Schmidt 1999