DOUGLAS GORDON & MORGANE TSCHIEMBER :
AS CLOSE AS YOU CAN FOR AS LONG AS IT LASTs
‘As close as you can...’ is an artwork made using fire, smoke and sound —a call and response between two artists—an oblique reference to the well-known history of yodeling in this particular landscape. Tschiember and Gordon were invited to visit the beautiful but terrifying mountain landscape around Gstaad. To those unfamiliar with this environment it can represent beauty, fear, loneliness and a particular melancholy. Lonely travellers will often seek the companionship of another – the question is whether this relationship—the call and response—is based on desire, fear and excitement of the unknown. Try to get as close as you can to the fire, read the smoke signal—but for Gods sake, don’t travel alone!
