‘Under The Magnifier’ is an optical sculpture inspired by the homonymous essay submitted for the Hannah Arendt Prize 2013.
This 1500-word text, exploring the Promethean act of disobedience as the essence of creativity, is printed on a 15000-square-millimetre sheet of photographic paper (15cm x 10cm). A mechanical support tool stabilises the paper while a magnifier facilitates the reading, an interactive process that invites a poetic and philosophical contemplation of the essay’s themes.