Box

What happens when a frame appears in the middle of reality? A surface is created. And what does the frame frame? Or rather, what does it add to reality? Absolutely nothing. It's just a square/rectangle that doesn't actually change anything. And yet it changes everything completely because, from that moment on, the viewer believes that the framing carries some MEANING. That there is SOMETHING hidden behind the surface, created by the frame and the image it creates. What is in the frame of the picture must mean something, if it is worthy of being displayed; the world is rich and there is always something to discover in it, when there is something that is BEYOND the frame and still eludes us, and we sense that it will be the real thing. /// Reality is three-dimensional. Box - three-dimensional object. Film can uncover the truth; it can be three-dimensional. Takashi Ito replies that that’s nothing but shit: his box is only a six-sided surface. All things about themselves and hidden essences, meaning concealed inside reality and waiting for our discovery, collide with the walls of the surfaces of this cube. This is because that hidden meaning was all along just an effect of the frame/surface itself and our illusion (some call it life), that something is hidden behind this surface. It is because Ito's box is empty from the beginning. Just like in Spacy, the viewer only watches a closed game of the surface itself, behind which there is NOTHING, only our fantasy that we will someday break through that wall. When I believe again that life has meaning, go ahead and punch me the way Takashi Ito just did. (17.11.2016)