Project: Text Portrait MISSING
Location: De Bijenkorf
Ralph Ueltzhoeffer’s artistic research is dedicated to the relationship of visual and written information in the digital sphere and their relevance for the beliefs one produces from these data. His search for new forms synchronizing visual and written information reacts and reflects on the internet as an open and central source of information in times of globalization and digitalization of data. In the synopses of visible and readable information he engenders visuals which require new perceptional approaches.
In the “Text Portraits” images and words are equally used to generate a portrait, understood as the visual representation of an individual. On display during GLOW are portraits for which Ralph Ueltzhoeffer has taken photographic portraits of randomly chosen citizens of Eindhoven. Combining the miscellaneous digital information he composes portraits using the word ”missing” referring to the trait of human cognition to hide daily routine perceptions in “blind spots”.
