Round Trip 2

[In the exhibition Parallelotopias] the visitor needs to work through their bodily reaction to the projection in order to complete their traumatic recall of the past. Which brings the visitor to the final somatic encounter with the traumatic past of history. In Round Trip 2, a bathtub full of black ink and the old typewriter provide the viewer with a further multi-sensorial encounter. The blackness of the liquid, recalling images of the abyss and the phantom typewriter that seems uncannily to float on the surface asks the visitor to imagine, to become secondary witness like the children of the refugees from Asia Minor that are visiting the homeland of their parents on the video projection above. This secondary witnessing becomes a prosthetic memory for the visitor like the photographs in Pamuk’s book. (Parallelotopias, Gabriel Koureas, Birkbeck College, University of London)