chiffre

1997

oil paint, graphite, ink on paper mounted on canvas

diptych

200 x 400cm

Today's world is confronted with an information flood whose decipherment is a challenge to logic. Both panels, entitled chiffre, cannot be decoded. Since their intrinsic logic is insufficient access depends on the degree of vision. Unambiguous decoding is denied − similar to texts that have been written in unknown alphabets. As soon as the logic of a language is deciphered it loses imaginativeness becoming a one-dimensional statement. The bar code-directed panels recombine to form new combinations legible only by abstract means.