death “designed” by numbers: how the iconicity, seriality, irreducibility, immeasurability, mythicality of numbers can give value to nothing and viceversa. let nothing and death defy numbers and our objective thought in finding a meaning. the coffin, a symbolic anthropomorphic unity, a prime (and ultimate) number, a precious gold bullion in warranty of the social exspendability of the cult, is “estranged”, curtailed to dimensions to which that cult is unknown (the ones of an ant) and multiplied into an unverifiable number (but declared 1000) that ritualizes the true tragedy, the tragedy of anonymity.

one thousand dead ants / 2012 / 1000 bronze coffins / (2×0,8×0,6 cm each) variable dimensions

one thousand dead ants / “ostrale biennale 020” robotron kantine / dresden / germany