Passengers Perspective
2024, Site-specific installation, Paper, 16:9, 24.5 × 31 × 0.5 cm
Heavily tinted and placed next to the passengers, a window frames the landscape of travel and provides a private corner for (be)longing. The installation resembles the window of the ÖBB Nightjet couchette. A window is a distinctive architectural element, of houses and vehicles, for dwelling and moving, in domestic and public spaces. Viewers may only encounter a model of a window, without seeing what lies beyond, much like a baby looking at a fingertip pointing at the moon.
“Toss me a cigarette, I think there’s one in my raincoat”
“We smoked the last one an hour ago”
So I looked at the scenery, she read her magazine
And the moon rose over an open field
from America (1968), Paul Simon