https://www.kunstverein-muenchen.de/en/program/schaufenster/2022/eleanor-ivory-weber
The mouth is a clock without hands
A city skyline is silhouetted against a pink sunset, the lights of
the buildings are reflected in the water below, which looks purple. An
aeroplane flies out of the frame on the top left of the image, taking
off somewhere. It is a warm image, feels like summer’s coming, that
feeling at dusk when the night is full of potential and we don’t know
what will happen.
In the same movement reportage bears witness to the world and consumes
it. It is also a technique for making equivalences out of what is
irreconcilable. I keep track of the dates when important things happen
as a way to remember how the past shows up today. All the while I am
trying to understand how repetitions, forgetting and suspended
apprehension are equally part of personal and public events, places and
products.
Everything that enables us to record, witness and claim history, also
enables us to miss it. The news form is fatal and always precedes the
catastrophe of its daily content. Be wary when your senses are
trivialised by the marching gait of development, algorithms for
‘personal preferences’ or the hegemony of the new. Grief is not
objective.
(EIW)
Recognise this city?
2022
Poster found 7 December 2018 in the old Actiris building in the centre of Brussels, black and pink vinyl, ‘Ee’ typeface based on my handwriting designed 2016 by Ella Sutherland, 16 neodymium magnets
98 x 68 cm, dimensions variable
The mouth is a clock without hands
2022
Digital prints
15 x 15 cm
Daily news, “All the News That’s Fit to Print”, 14.04–05.06.2022, Munich
2020–
The New York Times International Edition purchased each day the exhibition is open to the public 
Overseas (Majestic Fanfare, 1988 version)
2022
ABC Radio news broadcast theme played on the hour between 6 am and 11 pm (AEST), 9-second abridged version, 18-second main version at 7am only
