To return to a place,
is, like dying.
It is, to fulfill prophecies,
or empty them.
To return to a place,
is, like dying.
It is, to fulfill prophecies,
or empty them.*
Ido Govrin
The aforementioned quote is at the same time formal and semantic; inasmuch as the quoting action itself by which the quote’s content is concerned with, its meaning, is happening (again) "in-itself", we perceived it in terms of being a drawing. It is also semantic in its simple textual sense which seems to achieve without an insignificant extent an almost automatic precedence. The double move is in fact a second order abstraction; a reverberation of a reverberation, a quote of a quote - a return to something alienated and familiar.
How should this be understood? perhaps, by pre-understanding (what is pre-understanding?) that
a correct positioning of a question is of great significance, any question, in order to fulfill even temporarily our basic curiosity drive. But this temporality indicates more than anything else at that significance which a properly given answer will leave the question open yet stable. The punctuation marks conditions the thought and being conditioned by repetition and sense affixing - it is impossible for the thought to reveal itself in its pureness but clear methodological forms can determine incidentally their interrelations between various senses which "get into" the thought from the outside. The mark required repetition and sense, iteration and sense... until the question’s deep foundations will (again) collapse into themselves.
The double operator of the punctuation marks - double functions here is becoming possible - as an organizing element, structuring, balancing, calming, permits relation establishment and again soothing, or rather, emerging, revealing, breaking, bubbling, floating from above, in trauma? The assumption is that the experience of art requires us to a certain disregarding even if against our natural and humanely wish.
Participating Artists: Liora Belford | Ido Govrin | Sharon Glazberg | Yoni Niv
*The quote: Yehuda Amichai, "Ein-Gedi", taken from "Ve Lo Almenat Lizkor". An excerpt from a work in process, Ido Govrin 2012
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