installation at kuz/landesgalerie, eisenstadt 2025

the speed at which global events manifest through media changes not only the informational landscape, but also the emotional economy. i am sorry takes this condition as its point of departure: eight printers respond to updates from conflict zones in the world’s most relevant news feeds — not with analysis, but with expression.

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algorithms have no sense of a society’s underlying mood, yet they actively shape it. i am sorry articulates one facet of this atmosphere and translates it into a physical gesture. through the continuous repetition of the phrase, meaning turns into structure, information into surface. what is repeated loses reference; what accumulates gains form.

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the writer eva menasse has described the social pressure to make public declarations — morally unambiguous, immediate, visible. i am sorry does not take up this impulse as a position, but as an automated gesture. the work transfers the principle of confession into a structure without a subject — neither clearly addressed nor ever complete.