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Hanne Darboven — Serial Sheets
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Repetition without Emphasis
OBS-MEA-DAR-002
Systems of Clarity

Repetition sustains structure

Hanne Darboven — Serial Sheets

The work proceeds through repetition without visual hierarchy.

Marks remain equivalent.

Progress is chronological rather than compositional.

Structure persists because nothing resolves.

What continues is order maintained through refusal of emphasis.

What is set aside?
Repetition usually produces pattern. Here it produces stability. No mark advances over another. No moment asserts itself. The system does not develop. It continues. What remains is structure held through restraint.

Repetition usually produces pattern.

Here it produces stability.

No mark advances over another.

No moment asserts itself.

The system does not develop.

It continues.

What remains is structure held through restraint.

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