Dem Grund so nah
At the destination of an imminent voyage, I will drop an electronic message in a bottle into the open ocean between Bermuda, Puerto Rico and Miami – a region scientifically part of the ecologically significant Sargasso Sea, yet long shaped by cultural associations with what is controversially known as the “Bermuda Triangle.” Once adrift and exposed to the open sea, the bottle will intermittently transmit its coordinates, sending out signals that form a fragmented trace shaped by transmission intervals and ocean drift — accompanied by a subtle attempt to return. However, that destination itself will have changed — through current, through sea level — through climate. In anticipation of the voyage, the exhibition presented a negative space from which the narrative surrounding the bottle’s origin takes shape. At first glance, the translucent object appears to be a mold for casting a bottle — yet it reveals itself as something else: not a tool for fabricating a hollow body, but an opening into the complex entanglements — scientific, fictional, and cultural — that converge around its intended point of origin.
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