The starting point here is the relation between writing and time, object and text, hence the title “Schreibtischuhr” (writing desk clock).

We are considering the time of the written as a point of origin and analysis, rather than the duration of the spoken. e desk stands for the common starting point of both the artist andtheir critical double when considering the concept image/reads/text. e time of the desk that begins and ends in silence and is a place of reading and/or writing. A place for the production of scenarios and a site of critical writing, correspondence and thought placed into written form. Works in the exhibition are “on and of” philosophy. Forcing a material to speak, as a more productive way to go beyond image and caption. Text as a point of departure and return – an alert and a series of reections at the same time. A series of precisely selected desks from various moments in the modern period are displayed in the gallery. e surrounding critical context of the exhibition is a series of works by artists who take dierent approaches to questions of time, scenario production, identity, and withdrawal – both undermining and accentuating the themes under examination here. Liam Gillick and John Rajchman, New York, 2017