Ausstellungseröffnung
Dienstag, 28. Juni 2022, 18 Uhr
Brückenpassage MQ
Zwischen Burggasse und Hof 12

B paused, glancing at one of the tables, then continued. “So eventually he had to move because the store below had installed a sign in front of his window, that was flooding his bedroom with neon light and buzzing noise. The guy had even tried to remove the thing himself!”

Apparently, he had not succeeded. She started repositioning her chair to follow the fading sunlight, then nodded towards a group of staff gathering a few meters from where the restaurant ended.

“A cigarette takes about, let’s say, five minutes?” B asked.

I nodded. “More or less.”

“That’s too short to be called a break.”

“You could smoke two, I guess.”

B laughed. “If you use the first to light the next they count as one.”

Gazing off, I imagined the tiny glow as its lifetime would stretch to ten minutes or more.

“A coffee could be ten minutes as well.”

B calculated.

She then spoke about how the kind and size of a beverage directly translated to the time spent somewhere.

Till late that night I kept on ruminating about long shifts with hasty glasses of water at the sink between runs before falling into feverish dreams of the three numbers divided by a slash and their neon shine, illuminating scenes of B and me sharing endless cigarette breaks, keeping tiny glows alive.

Text und Foto: Carolina Laura Rotter

Carolina Laura Rotter (*1992 in München) lebt und arbeitet in Wien.

„Pfeiler“ ist ein Ausstellungsraum in der Brückenpassage/MQ.
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