Freshwater Comb

2022

Wood from a river bed

34,5 x 6 x 3 cm

“Freshwater comb” derives from the previous “Undo knots” to which it is related: still a comb, still a contemporary medicine object. It is a piece of wood found in a river bed - hence the title - on which, following its shape, it has been made thin engravings similar to waves on the presumed teeth and a wave symbol, as a call for missing water, on the handle. By increasingly reducing the appearance of an object made today, the intention is to minimize the intervention of the artist, referring to the first objects made by mankind. What allows us to distinguish a stone smoothed by the river from the work of a Neolithic man? The intention. What allows us to distinguish an ordinary comb from a medicin comb?