25/5/2015
Esther Mathis
O', Milano
The book launch of Salt Manual
O' is pleased to invite you to the book launch of Salt Manual by Esther Mathis, published by Artphilein Editions on May 26, at 19.00. Salt is an installation consisting of PET bottles, wool, water and salt. The actual work is being created in the exhibition space. It is the recording of a process. A kind of salt machine or drafting machine, which consists of a vertical pillar of salt and an underlying ground drawing. The traces of many influences (such as dust, moisture and touch) are clearly distinct and recognizable from the salt crystals. The interaction of the salt and the external influences ultimately form the work - a unique. Who forms what? What influences a work, the exhibition space, the curator, the technician orthe visitor? Artist's book Salt, reflects on participation and process and it offers the reader the instructions on how to install and take care of a 'salt crystal drawing'. The entire production process is disclosed, so that the reader can also become author.