White Lies is a collaborative work with sound artist Moritz Nahold. The piece consists of two works. One is a blurred graphite horizon on a large paper, the other, sound of grey noise blended with acoustic noise. The graphic surface results from a seemingly white wall in a building that remains anonymous in context of the work but is connected to various acts of political instrumentalization. White Lies refers to the same-titled chapter of Derek Jarman’s book Chroma. Jarman states, that white has an immense power in concealing, even though »the sign ‚blanc‘ (white/blank) with everything which is gradually associated with it, is an immense reservoir of meaning«¹.
The resulting visual and audible impressions of the grey noise make it hard to focus, on a common agreement or meaning of what exactly is depicted.
¹Jacques Derrida, tableau de la littérature française,
vol III: de Mme de Staël à Rimbaud, 1974, p. 372
White Lies
2016
Graphite, Paper
Sound: https://soundcloud.com/hrenmusic/white-lies
150 × 300 cm
Picture credits: Katrin Kreiner