• Anthony Auerbach: Atlas
  • Anthony Auerbach: Atlas
  • Anthony Auerbach: Atlas

Atlas, 275 survey sheets, 890 x 606 mm (installation: INS Office of Interpretation, Galéria Medium, Bratislava, 2006)

This works stems from Aerial Reconnaissance Survey B (10 May 2005), carried out as part of the International Necronautical Society (INS) Inspectorate, Berlin. In the course of interrogation by INS Inspectors, Auerbach suggested, referring to this Survey, that it was as if the survey material compels one to account for every grain of sand visible in the photographs. Accordingly, an instrument for this purpose was devised and installed in a temporary Office of Interpretation. Known as Atlas, this apparatus consists of 275 large sheets, organised in sequence, each displaying an enlargement of one photograph from the survey. The image is equipped with a grid to facilitate the process of counting. The results are entered in the Tally. The aggregate results will be transmitted to the Inspectorate Committee for interpretation.