Lossless Compression
Stacked to a mural are all the 35 mm slides with reproductions of artworks from the former slide collections of the Archaeological Institute of the Ruhr-University Bochum / the Art History Institute of the University of Cologne. Only the narrow sides of the slide's frames used for decades remain visible in their limited colour spectrum of black, white or faded yellow. Layered one on top of each other, they produce a flickering random pattern, almost like digital image noise, to which the individual slide contributes an elongated mark and which, in chaotic order, contains the respective image canon in its entirety.
200.000 35 mm slides, former slide archive of Cologne University, Institute of Art History, 270 x 800 cm
Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2021
200.000 35 mm slides, former slide archive of Cologne University, Institute of Art History, 270 x 800 cm
Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg, 2017
200.000 35 mm slides, former slide archive of Cologne University, Institute of Art History, 270 x 800 cm
Annely Juda Fine Art, London, 2016
70.000 35 mm slides, former slide archive of Ruhr-University Bochum, Institute of Archaeology, 260 x 320 cm
DZ BANK Kunststiftung, Frankfurt a.M, 2021 (photography: Norbert Miguletz, Frankfurt a.M.)
70.000 35 mm slides, former slide archive of Ruhr-University Bochum, Institute of Archaeology, 260 x 320 cm
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 2017
120.000 35 mm slides, former slide archive of Ruhr-University Bochum, Institute of Art History, 300 x 600 cm
Setareh X, Düsseldorf, 2021 (photography: Lukas Vogt, Essen)
