The work “abjurer↔nowhere, terra↔green” is a cipher like safe-box with a 7 letter, reconfigurable password. Through its transparency, the puzzle lays bare its otherwise, concealed inner workings and as such, reveals the potential to decipher it. This re-configuration of the sequence of operations where knowledge of the code previously held a singular, uttermost importance, is now substituted with meticulous observation and attention; the key is revealed rather than given or inherited. This process of deciphering functions like a reverse engineering of learning. By bringing to the foreground the mechanism that links our input action to the result, a different hierarchy emerges, one where the importance of holding on to information/memory and experience internally, does not guarantee its reliability. Even connecting the state of knowing, to objects and places outside our brain remains still susceptible to the eye of the beholder. The very feeling of familiarity of what we do know, can’t always be trusted.

install shots from group show “Paramnesia” at Fake Office, GR

UV resin, brass
15.2cm x 6.2cm Diameter

︎ 1,6,7,8: YOOOP Studio, Courtesy Fake Office

︎ 2,3,4,5: Eray Ismailov