die ganze welt und ihre auschnitte
2009
An ongoing atlas of palm prints of different individuals, a form of identity proof and distortion at the same time. The inversion of huge-scale figures like for example those of satellite images, reduces big ‘world cutouts’ to outline maps. Inverting the scale rules of cartographical representation while at the same time using similar representational conventions, the microscopic and palpable structures of the subject join the bird-eye view formations of satellite images.
If the body is the most personal territory for humans, the hands are the sensible instruments with which we can feel and measure our environment. The formal continuity between macro and micro structures is recalled through a closer observation of the fine visible textures – the lines of the palm call to mind rivers that in turn evoke veins, valleys, and other landscapes – zooming in and out in the different perception layers.
Each image participates in the reading of the one adjacent to it. The regular folds of the paper call to mind the possibility of reducing each image to a small transportable object.
Nine black and white offset prints on thin folded paper, 148 x 170 cm each. When folded, (20 x 26 x 0,8 cm each) kept in a semitransparent accordion paper folder.