Feature: Much ado from nothing
Photo gallery: Swallowed up by black holes
Photographing nothing “is possible in purely theoretical terms, though in practical terms, you’d end up with completely black images”, say Jojakim Cortis and Adrian Sonderegger. They painted black circular shapes in different places in their studio using lots of paint. This created imaginary surfaces that seem detached from their surroundings. Everything seems to disappear behind these black holes – almost everything, at least. Traces of these black holes are still to be found in their studio.
How can you create nothingness? And what might make it disappear again? The black holes in this studio float away, detached from space and classification.
To make them, the photographers distributed real, three-dimensional, dark surfaces across their studio.
Everything – almost everything – seems to disappear into these black holes. Traces of them are still to be found in their studio.
What goes in small, comes out bigger.
The different levels are confusing. Is something on the floor here?
Nothing is as it seems any more. In a black hole, even dimensions change of their own accord.
