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Vollendende Mimesis
Pen on paper, photography
Learn about the similarity between translation as a mimesis and photography. The German sentence, which means "In mimesis, tightly interfolded like cotyledons, slumber the two aspects of art: semblance and play," extracted from Walter Benjamin's note, is translated into English, French, and Korean one after another using a Google translator. And these handwritten sentences on paper were taken and developed with a black-and-white film camera, and the developed photos were taken again and developed three times. You can observe the appearance of the text that changes little by little every time you go through the mimesis of translation and the mimesis of photography.
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