1:24:00, 1:37:00, 1:52:00

Gouache and ink on paper, 2015

My origami pieces are triggers for an action of memory. They were created intentionally, in a given time frame, as a part of a performance, the titles of the works stand for the time it took me to make them. I pre-prepared the papers by painting it on one side with a bright colour. At the time of the performance I folded it into a common origami shape (a boat, a plane and a cootie catcher). Then, I made tiny marks using pen and ink on the exposed part of the paper shape. When the time frame was over, I stopped marking the paper. Then I unfolded the paper and hung it on the wall, the white side with the marking on it facing forward. The bright colour shone through the creases of the paper.
This performance was the first of a ritual of making traces, an artificially activity, artistic gesture whose intention is what it leaves behind. Here, the paper becomes the event itself: the use of pen and ink makes the paper an authentic index of my action – my personal handwriting is left on it. The creases could have been made by anyone, but the marks bear my own handwriting. The paper becomes a mnemonic device of an action that happened in the past.

Images: Nemo Nonnenmacher