The Vote
Die Wahl
Le vote
CR 328. Year 1986
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It was said of a neighboring tribe that a choice (vote) was only valid if it could be upheld before the following seven generations.
… Gerz puts forward the notion of a society whose decisions remain valid for seven generations. People are depicted like shadows; although they do not control their environment or the speed of their progress as much as we do, they do have the power to think in such mind frames as to dominate memory and determine the future. "The viewer's place is somewhere else" says Gerz, and he succeeds in making it painfully clear where that place is…. the observer, to whom the images within the fragmented photos and the intonation of the text seems so familiar, finds in the comparative reflection only the opposite: a society in which most decisions have to be revoked by the same generation. A discourse before one's inner eye.
Doris von Drathen 1989
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Mixed Media Photograph
9 framed b+w photographs, 1 framed text (typed on paper, enlarged photograph), each 40,5 x 50,5 cm, 1 monochrome blue color photograph, 20 x 50,5 cm, total 287 x 214 cm
The text is typed in three languages.
Private Collection
Exhibitions
Calais 1986 (Chartres 1986). Long Beach 1986. Sydney 1, 1987. Sydney 2, 1987. Berlin 1988. København 1989
Bibliography
I: Calais 1986, pp. 118-119
II: Drateln 1989, p. 45. Drateln 1990, p. 63
VI: Düsseldorf 1997, pp. 146-147