18/07/2026
Borrowed objects in Raphael Pohl’s (raphael pohl) conceptual installations keep their former lives attached: domestic, commercial, or industrial, ordinary enough to be overlooked.
In yet lonely hue I.III (2025), this logic is reduced to a flashlight beam, a peppercorn, and a bare wall. The elements are minor, but the attention feels too exact, as if a larger function has been removed and only its smallest evidence remains. Light acts less as illumination than pressure: witness, measure, failed announcement. A ritual or economy seems to have collapsed into one narrow point of focus.
Shown in ESC 2035 (III): We never changed at ...ISM Project Space, The Hague. Curated and documented by 0—1.