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Questions<\/em>, which combines profound metaphysical speculations and banal tribulations, exemplifies the willful ambiguity that pervades the artists\u2019 oeuvre. A large-scale, choreographed installation, the work utilizes fifteen slide projectors to cast hundreds of handwritten queries written in four different languages\u2014English, German, Italian, and Japanese\u2014in white on the walls of a dark room. The words, never ceasing to ask while proposing no answers, overlap each other, creating undulating patterns that slowly appear and quickly fade. The interrogations range from the empirical (\u201cHow long is the Nile?\u201d) to the absurd (\u201cIs it true that traces of aliens have been found in yogurt?\u201d), the personal (\u201cAm I loved?\u201d), and the metaphysical (\u201cDo souls wander?\u201d). \u201cOur aim wasn\u2019t to think about the questions themselves too much,\u201d the artists explained, \u201cbut about someone coming up with all those questions. In very vague terms, we did imagine someone asking himself slightly paranoid questions that revolve very much around himself.\u201d These, they think, are just the sort of questions that would run through his mind as he falls asleep, hence the dark room.
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