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Hunter Longe and Paulo Wirz make us cognitively hungry in their capacity to get us pondering about some of the quintessential enigmas of life, be it the (in)finitude of one’s own existence, the interconnectedness of things and the creative power of language and its symbolisms.
In other words, both practices propose an alternative to the dogmas of humanism and anthropocentrism. One of the common denominators in the work of the two artists are relics of the past. Wirz having researched on life after death rituals, pre-modern shamanism, mummification or the history of board games and Longe’s long-standing interest in evolution, the intersection between geology and biology, minerals and their prismatic qualities be they esoteric or technological. Through different registers of information–audio, scale, visual and tactile–we discover estranging moments be it the synesthetic experience of hearing warmth (fire) through light or the illusion of...More
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Hunter Longe and Paulo Wirz make us cognitively hungry in their capacity to get us pondering about some of the quintessential enigmas of life, be it the (in)finitude of one’s own existence, the interconnectedness of things and the creative power of language and its symbolisms.
In other words, both practices propose an alternative to the dogmas of humanism and anthropocentrism. One of the common denominators in the work of the two artists are relics of the past. Wirz having researched on life after death rituals, pre-modern shamanism, mummification or the history of board games and Longe’s long-standing interest in evolution, the intersection between geology and biology, minerals and their prismatic qualities be they esoteric or technological. Through different registers of information–audio, scale, visual and tactile–we discover estranging moments be it the synesthetic experience of hearing warmth (fire) through light or the illusion of...More
