On New Year‘s Eve 2008, Spencer Finch caught seventeen snowflakes on a large sheet of Bright White Arches paper, which he held out of his window in Manhattan. The solid crystalline structures soon dissolved as the snow melted. The water soaked into the paper. The delicate flakes have inscribed themselves. However, their traces are virtually invisible to the eye. With this work once again, Spencer Finch draws attention to the limits of human perception. At the same time the work explores the representability of the invisible.

Juliane Rogge

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