2006, Gouache on Paper, 220 x 150cm For a long time one of the certainties of everyday life was the idea that communication, understanding and cognition are linked in a relatively simple transceiver model. We have long since been expelled from the supposed paradise of this one-dimensional structure, diffused by the purely technical-scientific system of thought in the communication studies and common consciousness. Things are far more complicated: communication has nothing to do with the exchange of information. There is no information that can be pushed smoothly through channels, exchanged and processed. Far more, it is our brain that construes all of that which is perceived as sounds and pictures, as a taste or a smell. We don't see with our eyes, but with the brain. The case can be summed up in this aphorism. Therefore, it is the brain that plays the decisive role. (from Anett Reckert.: Oberflächentrugschlüsse) back