SEARCH

<p>For <em>SEARCH</em>, Matias Faldbakken went into the log of his different hard drives and extracted parts of his Google search histories. The search phrases are printed chronologically according to when they were typed into the search box.</p> <p>It is a straightforward concept with a revealing and a semi-absurd end product. The texts are to a large part based on image searches. In many respects they show the verbal foundation for the artist’s image production: they are partly his notes, partly his research.</p> <p>These search-word texts are at the same time almost like automatic writing; unconscious (or accidental) text production. They allow the reader to witness part of his working process and could be seen as a cross section of his thinking. The texts occupy a space in between the artist’s visual and textual production, ending up here as a form of (concrete) poetry.</p>