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1,2,3 Much

(single channel, stereo sound, TRT: 22’) looks and listens into the fermenting kaleidoscope of artist Adolph Wolfli’s work. While jailed in an asylum, he relentlessly calculates the number and weight of his psychic world. He becomes his alter ego, St. Adolph, to compensate for calamities suffered in childhood. His extravagant counting evolves into a numerical chant in a quest for innocence and transcendence.

The video piece 1, 2, 3, much looks and listens into the fermenting kaleidoscope of artist Adolph Wölfli's work. While jailed in an asylum, he relentlessly calculates the number and weight of his psychic world. He becomes his alter ego, St. Adolph, to compensate for calamities suffered in childhood. His extravagant counting evolves into a numerical chant in a quest for innocence and transcendence.