Christine Moldrickx
Threads

Christine Moldrickx’s artistic work is based on principles of ambiguity and optical illusion, whereby sensual presence is always underpinned by an intellectual challenge. As in other editions published by Edition Block – such as Evervess II 1 by Joseph Beuys (EB11), Blaues Dreieck von Palermo (EB21), Vier Multiples in Tasche by Maria Eichhorn (EB74), and Time Machine by Alicja Kwade (EB87) – the work Threads is only realized through the active participation of its potential owners. To do this, two vertical notches spaced 7 cm apart are to be cut into a wall at a height of 166 cm using a tool or another pointed object, into which the halves of a long wooden drill bit, divided exactly in the middle, fit precisely. “They are the upper and lower parts of the tool or two figures squeezing themselves into narrow niches. Winding trains of thought.”¹
The original function of the drill, which would normally penetrate the wall at a 90-degree angle, is negated by splitting it and holding it vertically in the surface. “The impressions are contradictory: while the hardness and shine of the metal imply technology and operative action, the pins twist in the imagination like steel curls. But the slots and pins are at eye level: real and opposite.”² The edition consists of a white canvas-covered box, in which the two drill halves are embedded in two recesses in the bottom on the right-hand side. The left-hand side contains the installation instructions, signature, and numbering. The artist has been working on a series of wall sculptures since 2015, on which the work Threads is also based.
Text: Eva Scharrer

¹ Christine Moldrickx in conversation with René Block in July 2022.

² Ibid.