Friedl Kubelka vom Gröller
Das tausendteilige Portrait, 1980
1150 black-and-white photographs, 5.8 x 5.8 cm each,
vintage prints, baryta paper,
dry-mounted on molino, handwritten text
Part 1 438 black-and-white photographs, 116.7 x 277 cm,
framed in acrylic glass box, 123,1 x 240,3 x 9,1 cm
Part 2 449 black-and-white photographs, 116.3 x 260.4 cm,
framed in acrylic glass box, 123.1 x 240.4 x 9.1 cm
Part 3 263 black-and-white photographs, 116.2 x 259.2 cm,
framed in acrylic glass box, 123.1 x 240.3 x 9.2 cm
One Thousand Changing Thoughts is a portrait which consists of 1,000 individual photographs. It cannot be reproduced, cannot be translated into another medium, and its complexity cannot be absorbed.
I have tried to keep the unity of time, place, and action to eliminate insignificant details and keep the viewer’s attention focused on the essentials.
During the individual sessions nothing ever changed except the sitter’s thoughts, the strict immobility on her part and mine made the slightest change of her facial expressions perceivable.
One Thousand Changing Thoughts is meant to be a photographic monument to my mother. Her thoughts combine past, present, and future. Because of the sameness of those 1,000 photographs, ordinary considerations such as age and beauty are rendered unimportant. What emerges is the human being. The number 1,000 is a symbol of my childhood, for desires which cannot be fulfilled. By producing a 1,000-part-portrait I try to satisfy this desire for the impossible. (Friedl Kubelka)
Lore Bondy
One Thousand Changing Thoughts, 1980
1 People
2 People
3 From early travels to
4 The travel through life
5 Optimistic thoughts
6 About group-therapy
7 Becoming a grandmother
8 A young dog—interhuman relations
9 Life—finding oneself
10 Emancipation
11 Diversities
12 H.
13 H.
14 On happiness
15 On misery
16 Secret thoughts
17 Secret thoughts
18 Mothers—hopes and worries
19 Dialogues
20 Group and anti-Semitism
21 Irmchen
22 Children—life—children of children
23 Vera—difficult upbringing
24 From positive developments to the possible destruction of life
25 Ödipus—connections
26 Images of childhood
27 Journey to Greece—possible love-affairs—about an interview with Henry Miller—thoughts about death, joy of life
28 Work
29 Fantasy
30 First pregnancy and first child up to the second year
31 A certain woman
32 Jura Soyfer—outsider
33 Wallnöfer
34 Aggressions against myself (the author)
35 Desire for children—value and worthlessness of life
36 A certain woman as an enemy
37 Experience with people at the health-resort
38 Development of a relationship up to the present
39 Reminiscences of my (the authors) development
40 Loneliness
41 Fear of the feeling of loneliness
42 Louise—I, a fourfold mother—my death—life still owes me something
43 Uli
After every session you find the corresponding number.
GF0003094.00.0-2003
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