Thinks About Thinking, Not Thinking and Non-Thinking

Thinks About Thinking, Not Thinking and Non-Thinking, 2021
Audrey Newton & Yeliz Yorulmaz

Audrey Newton and Yeliz Yorulmaz’s installation explores the elusive, ungraspable ideas that artists sometimes find impossible to fully realise. Inspired by Franz Kafka's enigmatic creature, The Odradek, from The Cares of a Family Man, this installation brings forth a metaphor for those persistent yet unmanifested visions. Like Kafka’s peculiar, star-shaped spool with loose, hanging threads, the Odradek embodies an anthropomorphic, unsettling presence that echoes the artists’ own encounters with ideas that resist definition yet linger in their minds.