A Diachronic Home

A Diachronic Home is a solo exhibition by Isabella Fürnkäs, featuring two works Diachronic Home and Vice Versa. Diachronic Home is a four channel video installation. The family’s bookshelves laden with philosophical and literary works, festooned with the accretion of a life spent between cultures. These shelves serve as backdrops in the manner of still life paintings static and motionless. The contemplative silence of the shelves is disrupted by the interjection of attempts to query the world and the objects within it. Along with voices reading excerpts from Elias Canetti, Franz Kafka, Junichiro Tanizaki, Kobo Abe, Marcel Proust, Marshall McLuhan, Michel Foucault, Oscar Wilde, Robert Musil, Roland Barthes, Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Samuel Beckett.

Vice Versa is a two channel video installation, with monitors resting on a mattress. As in Diachronic Home a stream of images moves across the screens, as if recollection of half remembered dreams. A disjointed conversation between male and female voice, threads its way through the syncopated typology of the videos. Special thanks to Jordan Milner who kindly agreed to enact the performative aspect of the work on the opening night, as priorly performed by Lukas von der Gracht in Düsseldorf.