Perfect Structures

Today, e-flux (opens in a new tab) announcements inform more than 90.000 subscribers about the contemporary art world. The work Perfect Structures contains all the announcements titles on e-flux website. Beginning on January 5, 2000, with the exhibition titled “Nothing”, ending in last days of 2016 Perfect Structures amount to 16.632 announcement titles, perhaps establishing the kanon of the art of today.The titles form a continuous line of words, a sentence, a poem. The uninterrupted line follows the parameters of the physical space of the venue, its exhibition and auxiliary premises, through a direct presentation of language (of contemporary art).

Prior to it's placement in space, titles are rearranged from chronological to alphabetical order with the intention to move the content from its everyday utilitarian domain of announcing and archiving events to it’s (ideological) function as language and finally from language to a measuring device. Using the language of e-flux as material – in the spirit of concrete poetry – the sentence covers the entire length of the walls. If language defines the world around us, the language in Perfect Structures points to (in)visible power-work behind art production.

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technical info: intervention, text-based, poetry / dimensions: variable / year 2016
exhibition view: Imperfect structures (opens in a new tab), SC Gallery, Zagreb
photo credits: Tjaša Kalkan & Fokus Grupa