OFNFO 2021
Wall installation
Curtain 300 x 240 cm
Variable dimensions
Pop-Up Gallery Atelier Zug
Gipsstrasse 3, Berlin
In OFNO, a palindrome merging the words “Off” and “On”, Jacomella Bonola stages a meditation on perception, control, and natural rhythm. A white curtain hangs on a wall onto which sunlight projects the shadow of a window. The window itself does not exist: it appears and disappears with the changing light.
By rendering visibility dependent on environmental conditions rather than human command, the work undermines the logic of technology and domination implicit in “on/off” binaries.
OFNO evokes an elemental temporality governed by weather and chance, where the viewer becomes aware of the fragility of seeing. The installation is both minimal and metaphysical, proposing a poetic return to natural time in contrast to the automated pulse of modern life.
Credits: © Bernd Hiepe