The perceived room is the simultaneous memory of three separate rooms. The first is the one you stand in. The second is the one you wish you were standing in and the third one is the room of another's memory. / All that we can say about a room is that we cannot claim to have ever been in it, nor that it exists outside of its memory of existence. / The visualization of a room in photography is an illusion. This illusion is real. For the picture shows a room and claims its existence. And this room is locked. It is not for us to enter. And here lies our only certainty. //
The gesture rules sovereignly over the image. / An apple is gorgeous. / And an apple. In a picture it obscures the background. / The largest masterpiece is the mirror. One sees oneself inside. / What is glimpsed there breaks speech. //
TEXT Philipp Dorl, 2009 // ENGLISH TRANSLATION Brittani Sonnenberg
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