CON (1990) This work is questioning the representational qualities of language in regard of depicting reality. The metaphors (mirror, looking glass, see-through etc.) that constitute congruence between looking and knowing in the generally vision-based construction of knowledge have been used here to show a certain relativity concerning the representation of 'the real'.

In a linguistic play there emerges a pun with the connotation of 'con' as 'putting together' (as in construction or connection) but also in its meaning of betraying someone. And let alone the French meaning of the word....

Specifications: Dimensions; 0.90m. by 0.30m., wood, sanded glass, punctured mirror, wallpaint.

Exhibited: Apunto Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland (1990). Hooghuis, Arnhem, Holland (1990) KunstRAI, Amsterdam, Holland (1990) Galerie Eugen Lendl, Graz, Austria (1990). Steyerischer Herbst, Graz, Austria (1990).