huber.huber

In contrast to Universen, however, this artist’s book features huber.huber’s photographs rather than collages and ink drawings. Presented in two-page spreads, the pictorial compositions form ascending and descending series of various lengths in which other images using other techniques are embedded. The upshot is a dazzling tapestry of images, producing a sort of visual dissonance which, in extreme cases, is liable to cause the same symptoms as motion sickness. Brief texts (translated into a total of seven different languages), ranging from succinct descriptions to associative sensory impressions, provide clues to some of the compositions and sequencing whilst also serving as agreeable interludes. A remarkably comprehensive index of nouns (e.g. “apple”, “petri dish”, “salt lake”) and adjectives (e.g. “moist”, “geometric”, “eerie”) helps to render the artists’ enigmatic visual cosmos readable.