TOPOLOGY OF DESIRE​

2021 / 2022

MOVING FLESH SURFACE

Mehrkanal Audio-Videoinstallation

full HD, 8‘‘ loop

A CODED VERNECULAR WHISPERING

Animation, 9:16, Sound, full HD

EDITION

 10 ml Duftformel, Glasampulle,

bedruckte Plastikhaut 12,5 x 9 cm

6 plus 1 AP

Topology of Desire is a multimedia installation that uses light, sound, and smell to map the idiosyncratic concept of desire and draws a bridge between humans and their products, between nature and culture. Instead of a familiar language, the installation encounters words with no obvious meaning—secret ingredients whose names are impossible to translate: Amniofluidol, Fantasmaspektrin or Hydroxul, … The terms animate to think of product names from the pharmaceutical industry. A diffuse female voice can be heard reciting these miracle drug-like ingredients with a soft timbre. Out of this “strange dictionary” a patented scent formula of synthetic molecules has been developed in cooperation with an olfactory laboratory. These sensual impressions are synchronized with visual cues that evoke an artificial world. A large-scale projected light image is layered on the walls – like a second skin, revealing a billowing fleshy substance. Cryptic symbols emerge in an animation, ceaselessly merging into one another—and constantly recombining like whimsical formulas…