Turing
Kunsthalle Ziegelhütte Appenzell, Heimspiel 2021
Textile Object, wool, 1.5x1.5m
2019
The textile work "Turing" was handmade from black and white wool yarns, which form a structure and follow a certain principle. Similar to Alan Turing's theory on the formation of structure on animal skins, the yarns seem to form spontaneously and like a chemical reaction in an ordered system. In this way, the pattern could continue to spread infinitely, but after a certain size, the decision of a limit or a cut-out was made.
As a contribution to the exhibition "Bezugsstoffe" at Dock 20, 2019, Selina Reiterer investigated tendencies of a "Neo-Biedermeier", which express itself through a retreat into the private, domestic and the social and political demarcation. The textile object "Turing" thematizes invisible boundaries and an increasing closure of relevant issues in politics and society. As a primordial form of enclosure, the carpet explores these themes in the form of a domestic object. A carpet creates space, marks out a territory or forms a contrast to the rest of the floor and, as the smallest possible demarcation of the home, offers protection from the underground, as it did for nomadic peoples.
Photography: Anna Tina Eberhard, Urs Baumann