between absence and presence


2021




A stencil based on a composite reconstruction of presumably th earliest known Homo sapiens fossils from Jebel Irhoud (Morocco)

You die. Thirty thousand years later, archaeologists excavate fragments of your skull. It is a sign of absence and presence at the same time. Your bones mark that you were — and that you are no more. A composite 3D model is created based on the fragments. Your skull becomes an imaginary copy, and I have the pixels printed.

My eyes see cavities — those parts of space surrounded by bones and through which the background is visible. But I feel a solid material plane when touching the paper with my fingers. I cut holes in the place of cavities and build a composition on the wall by applying the presence of paint through the absence of paper.