Comment
Petra
Korte’s salt objects are
artistic contributions to an
archaeology of the view,
excavations of the visible
world and its dream shape
behind the automated habits,
with which in everyday life we
don’t really see the things,
at it’s best we just remark
their functionality.
The objects play with the
diaphanousness, the charms of
the envelope, with which the
nature regains possession of
the artifacts of the humans,
of the traces of the human
life. Like the thorn hedge
from the fairy tale the salt
grows on (too)familiar but
also on strange objects, hides
things, names, words and opens
them at the same time for the
view of the spectator. If the
tender, fine-linked covering
creates in the first view a
distance for the everyday-life
habits of regard, the
immobilized objects, overgrown
magically with crystals, bind
the attentive eye and invite
it, to re-establish the old,
intimate confidence which
marked the view at its origin.
By the patterns of the
crystals the light falls with
new multiple bends on the
objects, which neither hides
their use nor their dignity, a
dignity which is always the
dignity of humans, to which
they refer.
.
Renzo Mauro
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