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“To give an object poetic space is to give it more space than it has objectivity; or, better still, it is following the expansion of its intimate space.”

Instrumentals are pieces of music without words that are more difficult to understand by comparison to those with lyrics. In his most recent abstractions with reduced formal language, Christian Haake creates an analogy to such music; here, too, it is impossible to pin down an obvious narrative. Thus, any attempt at interpretation is always an approximation to something that cannot be fully explained.
The ambiguity, the lack of figuration …