Mahn, Jule Claudia: entfallen / elude Mona stands in the living room in front of the ancestral gallery. Her eyes wander down the long rows of small frames. Carefully, she looks at one face after another; lots of polite smiles, mostly friendly detachment, alongside rare exuberance, now and then the beautiful moment of absent concentration. "What, please," Mona whispers, "do you have to do with me - and what do I have to do with you?"
The disappearance begins unnoticed. Gradually, but steadily, connections to people and events are cut. If Mona tries to hold a thought, it slips away into the diffuse. Then the restlessness returns: who am I if I can't remember anything?
A cut runs lengthwise through the text. Mona's story is held together by parallel scrolling and thus only becomes readable. On semi-transparent pages of varying widths, house facades, water, ventilation shafts, fences, and other set pieces of urban space overlap and rearrange themselves in ever new ways. The individual rhythm of scrolling on both sides results in a multitude of possibilities for wandering through the terrain. At the same time, a feeling of disorientation arises, because in the end one will have to find one's way back. german and english version, engl, Pigment printing, letterpress, photopolymer clichés, linocut, embossing, Two opposite interlocked book blocks with open stitching / folder, 64p, 12.8 x 8.5 inch, Ed. of 16, num., sign., Leipzig, 2021, Verwandte Objekte Request of availability backnext