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Jonas Englert, Circles II, 2019

Jonas Englert

Circles II, 2019
Diagram, lightbox, 7 silk-screen films
87 x 87 cm
34 1/4 x 34 1/4 in
Edition of 7 plus 2 artist's proofs
Courtesy of the artist & Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Photo: Elias Michael
'Circles II' (2019) presents the same research of skin-to-skin contact between political figures in diagrammatic form: each circle lists names, dates, and meeting places, and connects with the others in...
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"Circles II" (2019) presents the same research of skin-to-skin contact between political figures in diagrammatic form: each circle lists names, dates, and meeting places, and connects with the others in an uninterrupted loop of touch.

"Circles II" is aiming to expose the structural dynamics of political human contact that "Circles I" explores. This work shifts focus to the individual, space, and time, employing an aesthetic that centers on factuality, potentiality, and contingency. In contrast to "Circles I", "Circles II" adopts a more investigative and data-driven approach, concentrating on the mechanics of the circles themselves.

Every circle is connected with the previous as well as with the next. E.g.: through Charles de Gaulle and Dwight D. Eisenhower circle 1/7 is connected with circle 7/7 as well as with circle 2/7, as indicated in the diagram of "Circles II" as the overlapping font of a doubled name or in the moving images of "Circles I" as temporal parallelisms. Although the number of bodily contacts in each circle differ from 8 to 13, each circle in "Circles I" maintains a duration of five minutes until the circle closes and the loop repeats. Other than in "Circles II", where the circles grow as they contain more contacts.
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