Tempus, 2021 – 2022

Tear-off block
120 sheets
14,8 × 10,5 × 3,06 cm

*Wall display case
*120 frames
*120 passepartout
*Performance

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Over a period of 120 days, Marleine Chedraoui created a daily collection of texts from article headings. According to the Internet provider, the articles are a curated selection. They appear in the browser when a new tab is opened and is updated. Out of the collection of such text over a single day, Chedraoui developed a one-sentence collage. All 120 one-sentence collages were bound into a tear-off block.​

The tear-off block is exhibited in a vitrine. Throughout the run of the exhibition, the curator tears off one sheet at a time before the public, each of which is then framed and hung on the wall of the exhibition space.The actions begin with the exhibition and end with it. The sheets that may not have been torn down and presented due to the duration of the exhibition remain in the block. After the end of the exhibition, the work Tempus is given the additional title with details of the exhibition title, exhibition location, exhibition duration and the name of the curator who carried out the action.

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The project was funded by a scholarship from the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts.