Christof Nüssli

A: No.///End of Statement///

600×280cm, 2017
Exposured offset printing plates, concrete, acrylic paint, inkjet print on paper

Does covered information bring light into the dark?
Does enlargement make the truth visible?
Does reproduction reinforce the urgency?
More than 100 000 governmental documents include the violations by the „coalition against terror“. Those documents consist of court journals, examination reports, correspondence, picture fragments, handwritten notes and drawings. Christof Nüssli scanned through this collection published by the US government in the past years for his book „Withheld due to:“. In A: No.///End of Statement/// he engages with the bureaucratization of violence and power structures and attempts to bring truth to light.

14.6.–27.8.2017; Werk- und Auslandatelierstipendium der Stadt Zürich; Helmhaus Zurich (CH)