TIMES GOES BY – Johannes Pfeiffer

JOHANNES PFEIFFER – Il tempo passa (times is passing), 2010
Installation on the museum exhibits, with transparent plastic film, phosphorescent paints, black lights.

The concept of this work is based on the same location where it is to be located: the Archaeological Museum of Frankfurt, which shows many ancient Roman findings. The installation takes a number of archaeological exhibits which are wrapped up with transparent film and then treated with fluorescent colour. The exhibits are illuminated by black light. This creates an atmosphere like an illusion, an estrangement from the original object that, at the same time, is dramatically highlighted, like in a stage setting. The estranged shape reminds the past of which the exhibits are giving evidence.