"Social Fabric": Photography, Solar Atmospheres, and a Process Ontology in Sonne München, 1994

In 1994 the German artist Wolfgang Tillmans created the work social fabric (1993-94), a color photocopy of an eighteen-centimeter piece of cardboard on which he had handwritten the words "social fabric" and drawn five geometrical symbols, before placing it on the then new digital photocopi...

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Published in:Art journal (New York. 1960) 2021-01, Vol.80 (1), p.84-105
Main Author: Yazdani, Sara R.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
20th century
Handwriting
Ontology
Photography
Portraits
Visual artists
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Summary:In 1994 the German artist Wolfgang Tillmans created the work social fabric (1993-94), a color photocopy of an eighteen-centimeter piece of cardboard on which he had handwritten the words "social fabric" and drawn five geometrical symbols, before placing it on the then new digital photocopier, a color bubblejet printer. Tillmans had developed his technique in the late 1980s at a local photocopying kiosk in his hometown of Remscheid, copying private analog photographs of ocean water, sandy beaches, newspaper sheets, celestial bodies, diving nude bodies, and self-portraits, using the earliest Canon digital laser photocopier to make his first body of works, Approaches. The affiliation of warm human skin and autonomous potentiality of technologies probed in social fabric echoes the processual ontology of certain philosophers who question the genesis of the individual, specifically the work of Gilbert Simondon.
ISSN:0004-3249
2325-5307
DOI:10.1080/00043249.2021.1872305