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BLEACH
Jakob Schieche
Stefan Wirnsperger

Opening
Friday 6th of September 2011, 19h
daily open from the 7th to the 10th of September 2011, 15-19h

Statistics are only useful if they emphasize someone’s opinion or at least legitimize it. Otherwise, they often end up in the drawer or are repeated in other parameters. Torn between the demands of scientific objectivity and the manifold possibilities of manipulation, the work of Jakob Schieche and Stefan Wirnsperger reflects on the conflict between reality and subjective wishful thinking.
“Bleach” combines a variety of statistics because of their thematic and formal similarities. The unscientific use of the material relativizes its explanatory power and at the same time, by juxtaposition different subject areas, creates new contexts that are partly bordering the absurd. The contents are washed out and the clear boundaries dissolve into the gently flowing landscape of a three-dimensional bar chart. By entering the exhibition space visitors leave traces that model the statistical "reality".