material: screenprint on transparent film
size: 120 x 200 x 60 cm, two-piece
year: 2018
Finally, Cornelia König, whose pieces correlate image and text, transparency, opacity, and translucency, uses the full-length image of two persons rendered on two transparent films to capture the immediate theme of human connections and relationships. The colour of the mirror, which is a substitute for the faces, at once implies alienation, universality, and the possibility of identification; lines of text complete the ambiguous image. … What shines through, what allows us to look in and to look through, what reflects our own image − this remains a complex interplay that is presumably as old as humanity itself − and to which Hans Castorp, the hero of The Magic Mountain, has already created a monument in the form of his own private icon: an X-ray of his beloved. Text: Iris Meder, art historian, Translation: Jenny Weidenholzer