TXT (Engine of Wandering Words). 2012-13
Sechs Jacquard-Teppiche, Wolle, Baumwolle
The tension between text and image plays a central role in Ana Torfs’ work, along with related processes of visualisation and translation. TXT (Engine of Wandering Words) is composed of six Jacquard tapestries, each of which depicts a strange mechanical device with squares of twenty-five different images and handles along the edges. These squares depict fragments of existing photographs, engravings, oil paintings, maps, pamphlets and book pages from various time periods. Lines connect the squares to the handles, and soon we realise that these squares are in fact cubes that can be turned, revealing another side, perhaps with a new image. Is this a visual dictionary? A rebus? A children’s game? An "engine of the imagination"?

Entstanden im Auftrag der Sharjah Art Foundation.