Eighth chapter: return to the unknowing desire, the further one travels the closer one returns (to doubt), he wakes up under the tree, again
| Artist | Rirkrit TIRAVANIJA |
|---|---|
| Year | 2013 |
| Material/ Technique | screen print, metal foil, cast paper, STPI handmade cotton paper, stainless steel pedestal, 3D printed object |
| Size/ Duration | canvas: H269.5 × W269.5 × D2.5cm pedestal: H18 × W100.5 × D18cm object: H8.5 × W4.5 × D8.5cm |
| Copyright Notice | © Rirkrit TIRAVANIJA |
| Year of acquisition/ donation | 2016 |
| Description | Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1961. Lives and works in Chiang Mai, Thailand; New York, USA and Berlin, Germany. Rirkrit Tiravanija is one of the foremost exponents of ‘relational aesthetics’, giving visual expression to ‘relations’ by communicating with viewers in works such as "pad thai" (1990), in which he served Thai fried noodles in the gallery. He attempts to fictionalize people’s values by introducing everydayness into art spaces and uses unique methods to question existing frameworks, including history and social systems. "Eighth chapter: return to the unknowing desire, the further one travels the closer one returns (to doubt), he wakes up under the tree, again" is one of a series of eight artworks that deals with time travel. In works such as the novel "The Time Machine" (1895) by the English writer H.G. WELLS, a future in which humans are able to move freely through space-time is depicted from a dystopian point of view, and here too Tiravanija notes and likens the future to the fluid space of ‘chrome,’ with each work chronicling a different example of time travel under an aphoristic title. Calling to mind the space age, the cool and silvery large-format prints represent portals to chrome space, while the silver-colored stands topped with cheerful, 3D-printed objects serve as keys to the time travel portals. The numbers in the four corners of the print are Fibonacci numbers, which also appear in the natural world, and relate to Darwin’s tree of life, also depicted in the print. They could also be a reference to the golden ratio, which is the optimum ratio for the formation of branches on trees and plants. |
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