According to the novel book "slowness" by the Czech writer Milan Kundera:
"there is a hidden link between slowness and memory, between speed and
forgetting. Let's think about a very common situation: a man walks down
the street. Suddenly he wants to recall something, but memory fails.
At that moment his steps automatically slow down. Contrariwise someone
accelerates unconsciously, who tries to forget a recent painful incident,
as if he wanted to dash against something temporally overly close to
him."
The upright motion plays an important part in the evolution of humanity.
When we talk about an advancement positively assessed, we don't talk about
"progress" coincidentally.
The installation "auf" von Yukihiro Taguchi is based on the assumption
that progress detaches us from nature.
In conceiving the earth or ground as symbols of nature, we detach us evermore
from the real sense of ground. We are living in a sort of parallel world
floating above the natural ground.
In tearing open the carpeting and putting it on timber beams, Taguchi offers
us between that parallel world and the ground a neutral place.
We can betake ourselves in that neutral place and also from that point
accept an other perspective on the tempo of our steps in the everyday life.
Just have the courage to question and reconsider your walk!
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