RUOHONG WU & JOSÉ QUINTANAR

THIS WAS A PROJECT BUT

WE HAVE FORGOTTEN

WHAT IT WAS

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26/01/2024 > 23/02/202

open on

BORGER, 26/01/2024 6 to 9 pm

or by appointment

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A ball has been kicked by a man. A man carrying a flag. A flag that has been previously kicked by another person. Another person of whom we only know the gesture of his leg at the moment of shooting. The drawing ends with an "etc." There are two annotations,"this was a project but" at the top of the drawing, and "we have forgotten what it was" at the bottom. Ten years ago we found this drawing inside the book “Games at the Cedilla, or the Cedilla Takes Off” by Robert Filliou and George Brecht, published by Something Else Press in 1967. This image has haunted us ever since. The drawing seems to be the beginning of a game. The elements of the drawing indicate the instructions for

playing. It is like a word game, where each element conditions the next, and so on. At the same time, the information received establishes that the game has a fun character. Don’t think too much. The more absurd, the better. Continue playing and have fun. The "etc." indicates that we could continue playing endlessly: A ball kicked by a man who is carrying a flag, who has been kicked by a woman who has a hat, which has been kicked by a man who is wearing a wig, who has been kicked by a woman who has an umbrella, which has been kicked by a man... If we had to describe what a book is for us, we could not explain it better than this drawing.