![]() Within a house certain objects are ‘of’ the house rather than constituting the house itself: doors, windows, piping, light switches, and such like they are between that which is, and that which is not, or is yet to be ‘the possible, implying the becoming – the passage from one to the other takes place in the infra-thin’, as Duchamp put it.1 That is to say the nearer an object approaches to the edge of its integrity the less it is itself at some point it becomes less of itself and more of that which surrounds it, in this caesura we enter the universe of the ‘infra-thin’. The closer objects approach toward each other the less of their substance is manifest in the world. This attenuated territory can be posited as that which is not ‘that’ or ‘this’ but that which is, a presence which exists literally ‘beneath’ perceptibility. ![]() ![]() Catalogue essay by Richard Dyer, for ‘Infra Thin’ solo exhibitionīetween the object and the space that surrounds it there is another space, of molecular thickness, almost not there, almost not existing a thin skin of absence, a liminal integument of inter-relational ur-matter, that which separates the gaze from a true intimacy with the object of its attention. ![]()
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