Nelli Wilhelm
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A long ECG strip winds through the picture; a startled woman in a suit walks along it with two men behind her. A doctor stands at the left, a market stall of vegetables and jars at the right, a melting clock and a sailing ship above.

Heartbeat 777

An ECG runs like a path through different situations of a life. Medicine, everyday things, food, people and time meet inside a single dream landscape. The melting clock recalls that in moments of existential uncertainty time can lose its usual meaning. The heartbeat becomes a symbol of life, fear and continuing movement. The number 777 appears like a puzzling sign from another order. The work joins bodily reality to the symbolic language of the unconscious.