Un Voyage Sans Fin: Basel stop for Stas Falkov's tryptich
‘The triptych “Waiting Room” is part my “Endless Journey” concept. For this work, this window of the Voskhod Gallery, adjacent to the Basel SBB, is the logical stop. These spacious spaces somehow transform time-now into time-in-between - a person has not yet reached his destination, but in a normal situation he cannot turn back. Here for him everything becomes a simple waiting alone with himself, his thoughts and a small rucksack with incomprehensible stuff’. - Stas Falkov
"Traveling is useful; it makes the imagination work. Anything else is just frustration and fatigue. Our journey is entirely imaginary. And that is its strength.”
His journey begins here: behind relatively small window, reminiscent only of a blank leaf that turns yellow not from time, but from an impossibility of the kind that makes everything around it an infinite soft form that cannot be described or shaped.
But if you place a painting within it, it will immediately take on a completely different look. It will remind you of a simple fact: matter and the rules of its gravitation are given by God as law, but one special trick dominates the journey - if it is possible to visualize the beyond, whether by thought or feeling, it will certainly turn out to be a knowable reality.
The fourth destiny fades away, a small glow breaking through the twisted threads. "Close your eyes," it is suddenly heard, distinctly and with an appeal. Think - do you realize why trains stop between stops? A stop is the end point of any journey, and trains are only a means to this end. And the most important thing to understand and comprehend is this strict identity between a stopped train and a train at a stop - they are not two things, but one.
Life on earth must have begun at the train station.
Text by Nikita Golikov @plebsultima
