RAY

was designed by Radim Pesko and published by ROMA publications in 2014.

In RAY (2013-2014) Susanne Kriemann examines a radioactive rock discovered in the Barringer Hill Mine in Llano, Texas, in the late 1800s. We see a photograph of a large rock (a single chunk of gadolinite), and then another image of a wall of rocks, signalling the importance of the threshold to Kriemann’s work. She focuses on the material and mystical limit of knowing and seeing on how a narrative loops through archaeological layers without ever finding its source. Presently, the mine lies beneath a lake; its mirrored surface resembles the photographic lens, but the eye, ours and the rock’s, exists on both sides.

  • Editor
    Susanne Kriemann
  • Designer
    Radim Pesko
  • Publisher
    ROMA publications
  • Authors
    Dr. Eva Schmidt, Adam Kleinman, Dieter Roelstraete, Vanessa Joan Mueller
  • Date
    2013
  • Pages
    126
  • ISBN
    9789491843198