double (the last box)
„In her video installation Petra Egg deals with the short story Die Zeugen [The Witnesses] by Julio Cortázar. It concerns an unusual fly. His countryman Borges mentions a passage from a Chinese encyclopaedia in which animals are classified. It ends with „n): those that, from a distance, resemble flies." In Borge’s list the fly forms the close, the frame and the part where readers usually break out in laughter. Cortázar takes the fly from the margin to the centre, it becomes the main character. He tells of events that function without problem as part of literature but seem impossible in reality. Petra Egg feels free to rebut this assumption – a trick."
(Press release Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Wien)
„In her video installation Petra Egg deals with the short story Die Zeugen [The Witnesses] by Julio Cortázar. It concerns an unusual fly. His countryman Borges mentions a passage from a Chinese encyclopaedia in which animals are classified. It ends with „n): those that, from a distance, resemble flies." In Borge’s list the fly forms the close, the frame and the part where readers usually break out in laughter. Cortázar takes the fly from the margin to the centre, it becomes the main character. He tells of events that function without problem as part of literature but seem impossible in reality. Petra Egg feels free to rebut this assumption – a trick."
(Press release Kunstraum Niederösterreich, Wien)
