Klagenfurt u. A, 2'00, 2000, installation

"… while initially the buoys introduce the exhibition like signposts (- possible confusion), "Block F" - a bulky container - evokes a situation of extreme confinement. Photographs that allow a glimpse of the construction technique together with central passage of Bachmann's "Jordanischer Zeit", a novel about a fatal relationship of increasing hopelessness, provoke permanent alternation between interior and exterior views…". (Sabine B. Vogel) Manfred Pernice's large-scale installation for Manifesta 3 takes possession of the room in which it is exhibited. His architectural installation and sculptural arrangement direct the viewer, occasionally leading in an unexpected direction, and hardly leaving place from him to walk around. The installation influence the proportions and, despite their provisional character, have an intensely physical presence, determining how the viewer experiences a room. Manfred Pernice covers the surfaces of the installation with fragments of text by the writer Ingeborg Bachmann, with small collages and photographs. Text describing emotional conditions of a contemporary man open the 'reading' of sculptures for unexpected associations.