Gateway

2007
3D-rendering, Lamda, printed on Kodak Endura
Series of 9 prints

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YOU ASK ME WHAT PLACE THE IMAGE OF THIS CITY OF BELLONA HOLDS IN THE MINDS OF THOSE WHO HAVE NEVER BEEN HERE. HOW CAN I PRESUME TO SUGGEST? THERE ARE TIMES WHEN THESE STREETS SEEM TO UNDERPIN ALL THE CAPITALS OF THE WORLD. OTHER TIMES, I CONFESS, THE WHOLE PLACE SEEMS A POINTLESS AND UGLY MISTAKE, BETTER OBLITERATED THAN ABANDONED. THE MIRACLE OF ORDER HAS RUN OUT AND I AM LEFT IN AN UNMIRACULOUS PLACE WHERE ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN. WHAT USE DOES ANYONE HAVE FOR TWO MOONS? THERE IS A DECEIVING WARMTH THAT ASKS NOTHING. OBJECTS ARE LOST IN DOUBLE- LIGHT. WHAT MAKES IT TERRIBLE IS THAT IN THIS TIMELESS CITY, IN THIS SPACELESS PRESERVE, ANY SLIPPAGE CAN OCCUR. SOMETIMES IT SEEMS AS IF ALL THESE WALLS ON PIVOTS ARE CONTROLLED BY SUBTERRANEAN MACHINES SO THAT AFTER ONE PASSES, THEY MIGHT SUDDENLY SWING TO FACE ANOTHER DIRECTION, PARTING AT THIS CORNER, JOINING AT THAT ONE, LIKE A GREAT MAZE – FOREVER ADJUSTABLE, THEREFORE UNLEARNABLE. – The voice of Bellona (after Samuel R. Delaney), 2005

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Installation views: Gateways, Palace Enterprise, Copenhagen, 2024; Speaking in Tongues, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, 2012; Ann Lislegaard, Thomas Bayrle, Raven Row, London, 2009; Science Fiction, Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, 2008