Das Meta-Reading of an extinct Déjà-vu

This project focuses primarily on two elements: a shoe as a protective everyday object and a small table that evokes an oriental tradition—the gathering around the so-called korsi. The two objects share their components, thus shifting or even denying each other's functionality and usefulness (meaning). The loose upper parts of the shoe and its tongue were intended to represent the thick tabletop of a korsi (the square table), but due to their fragmented and torn state, they lack suitability. The bowl filled with charcoal, used for heating under the actual korsi, now sits far from the table. The culturally cherished, nostalgic gathering around the korsi will not take place here on a soft, comfortable carpet, but rather on an alien-feeling sole (the bottom part of the shoe), itself filled with crumpled, red-stained waste paper. The end of the shoe's tongue rests in the bowl full of charcoal, appearing bloody and black. The six upper sections of the shoe are each fitted with an eyelet and connected by a long cord (made from knotted white socks). These upper sections were originally paintings cut from six stretcher frames, which, like panels of paintings, tell us a story in a row. What that story is and what it alludes to is now up to the viewer.