The work "ACH" (engl. oh! I see!) in the Günther Grass Gallery
in Gdansk is to be seen as interjection and intervention in the
public space outside the gallery in the old town. It discusses the
relationship between inner and outer world, the ambiguity of terms: Inside
– outside, private – public, shadow – light.
From the windows of the gallery the projections develop text–fields with
the mixed feelings suggesting shout ACH, which are only readable if
passers–by entry into the projections and decipher the words on their
own body or on the ones of their neighbors.
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At the same time reflections and further projections in the interior
invite to enter the gallery. The numerous windows of the gallery
allow – on both sides – the observation of a permanently changing
room caused by the interventions of the audience. Movement and
communication of the Danzig public create a continual change of the work.
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The exclamation "Ach!" suppresses in Polish as in German, a
certain sensation, evaluation or attitude and transmits a signal of
approach or its avoidance. This ambivalence is also found in the
Egyptian mythology, where the term ACH designates gods, as well as
demons.
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