Passage I,

1990

mobile (animation, looped music)
Stúdió '90. Ernst Múzeum / Ernst Museum, Budapest, 1990

Combined with a reel-to-reel recorder, there is a device that recalls
the zoetrope, one of the technologies used to create the illusion of
a “motion picture” before the birth of cinematography. The bicycle
wheel, which is mounted on an X-leg metal rack and which has a
black strip of cardboard wrapped around its perimeter (which thus
forms a cylinder), is spun by the looped tape of the recorder.
Inspected from close up, through a vertical opening, a scene can
be observed, which “gives you a sense of déjà vu” (Edit Sasvári).
The photo series pasted on the inner wall of the cylinder recreates
an action sequence the viewer has just performed: endlessly, we walk
through a passage and approach a device... What happens to us and
what we can see are the same process. The effect of the “looped”
motion sequence is enhanced by the music played back from the
endless tape, and the monotonous rattle of a beater striking against
the spokes of the wheel.