Many attempts at painting a river  / viele versuche einen fluss zu malen 
Offsetprint 800 postcards
105 x 148 cm each 
2019/20

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The postcard pile shows a series of printed watercolor drawings representing the movement of the river ‘Le Gardon’ in  France. The title of the work plays with a similar idea of trying and failing that reveals the limitations of such ventures. The poetic gesture of the work lies in the redundancy of  drawing a liquid substance with watercolor paint, but also in the distribution of the image, when the postcards leave the exhibition space in a transcorporeal effort. A second part of the work is called An Attempt to Build a Dry Stone Wall.