This accordion shows two photographic series with two different motifs, taken in Vienna’s Prater amusement park with time exposure. The two motifs, which alternate rhythmically in the accordion, thematize movement, circles and time. The photographs integrate a text excerpt from the first act of Hugo von Hofmannsthal’s “Der Rosenkavalier” [The Knight of the Rose], in the original German as well as in a French and English translation: “Die Zeit, die ist ein sonderbares Ding / Le temps est subtil comme un poison / Time – how strangely does it go its ways.” The texts come in various sizes and levels of transparency, overlapping with each other in the photographs. 

15 color photographs, computer typesetting (Futura), laser-printed, coated paper, double-sided accordion, cloth-covered boards, embossed title label on front board, 30 pages, 14.2 × 24 cm (extends out to 227 × 24 cm), 45 numbered and signed copies, Flörsheim 2015

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