photographs and text by Charles van Otterdijk
- Author(s)
- Charles van Otterdijk
- Publication, year
- London ; The Hague ; Eindhoven : Bookworks : Stroom Den Haag : Van Abbemmuseum, 2013
- Scope
- 84 Pages, illustrated, 23 cm.
- ISBN
- 9781906012601
The book Double Centre presents a dossier of images, an index, and a short text. It appears like a report, a form of documentation, or some sort of archive revealing two sites discovered by the artist Charles van Otterdijk in the east of Germany. The photographs show stark rooms with objects that appear typical – unnervingly similar to everyday objects: desks, chairs, racks; yet, each object is unusual, distorted and unfamiliar, making it unclear what the function of the objects, or the sites they are in, might be. This peculiarity is further reinforced, by the apparent duplication of objects across the two sites. Objects are repeated, and modified, their differences accentuating their similarity. Exacerbated by these layers of doubling and suggestion, Double Centre feels similarly out of sight - the apparent objectivity of image and text, belying an eerie suspicion about the truth of the document, and narrative.
- Person as subject
- Charles van Otterdijk
- Keywords
- photography
- Location
- Cabinet 6 - 4: Kunstenaars
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