reflex

Christoph Girardet & Matthias Müller, Reflex, 2013, DVD loop, 4:3, black & white, sound, 1'50''

"One is unaware of the process as it is happening,” these ten words – derived from a sentence on a theory of language acquisition – have been assigned to the fingers belonging to a patient’s both hands, in the video-loop Reflex (2013). Through a clinical trigger-response-test, a doctor presses onto the fingertips in various sequences, thus evoking the words. Whereas these words then appear correctly in the images, the person under examination speaks the binary opposite of the word they are typing out loud.

Matthias Mueller Drain
Matthias Müller, Drain, 2010, inkjet print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, framed, 50 x 50 cm
Matthias Mueller Conspiracy
Matthias Müller, Conspiracy, 2001, set of 8 gelatin silver prints, framed, 47.8 x 59 cm
Matthias Mueller Sprinkler
Matthias Müller, Sprinkler, 1998/2001, piezo print, pigmented ink on Hahnemühle German Etching, framed, 78 x 108 cm
Matthias Mueller Wasteland
Matthias Müller, Wasteland, 1998/2001, piezo print, pigmented ink on Hahnemühle German Etching, framed, 78 x 108 cm