Daniela Stubbs-Leví
Two inkjet prints on paper, mounting under glass
148.5 x 210 mm chaque
Place-time is a play on words because it's not space-time, it's place, because space becomes place when it gets rids of materiality. So, with memories, you create a place in a space. And these are actual scientific drawings from a black hole, and what Daniela did is modifying with concrete poetry, in relation to this subject about the place where you were born, that you don't have any memory of this place where you were born. Daniela was born in Germany but that memory doesn't exist: the idea that they tell you about a place, but you don't really know it, so it's all distorted, and so that's why it says it circles myth to place, because we think something but it's all a myth. We don't have the memory to recall it.
This is part of a project called Five Laws of Absence, which talks about how mourning is a fundamental law and how a black hole is the mourning of a star, so it's space-time mourning the death of its star. So, it's all about grief, sorrow, and Are we the only ones that mourn? Can minerals mourn? Can special phenomena mourn as well?