Rodrigo Hernández: Dutch Flat Things

Cardboard box, handpainted, with 8 small objects, 14.8 × 21 × 2 cm
Edition: unique, 2014

“As one moves, the surfaces of objects emerge and recede. And as that happens, one is also – possibly – aware of oneself. In normal situations, one could pick up the horizon (an important visual invariant that helps determine wether one is tilted, upside down or upright. One lines up one’s face, head, arms, legs, feet with an array of objects culminating in it: the horizon).
[read more] The world looks upright or inverted, flat of deep because of this sort of alignment. When seen obliquely pages of a book become lines. Like sleeping animals, fallen sculptures or like a flat landscape seen from a a high speed train. This is all so near to closing the eyes. What appears then?” – Rodrigo Hernández
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