Andreas Karl Schulze: P SYSYPP S YP P

Really big!

The wall frieze P SYSYPP S YP P in the Library of Psychology at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster is 60 metres long and 40 centimetres high and covers three sides of the room. The coloured cotton squares attached to the wall have an edge length of five centimetres, from which the letters are formed - although in some places they are upside down. In this way, seeing quickly becomes reading, which fails, and so reading becomes seeing again, because the letters tend to disintegrate again and again into the independent colour fields of which they are composed. The viewer thus experiences the constant decay and the constant emergence of a form. Nothing can be fixed: chance and spatial reference are the methodical factors of an installation principle that counteracts the usual modes of access - reading, logic, explanation and prognosis. This allows the static and visually heavy spatial structure of the library with its rows of shelves and coloured book spines to be countered with a light wandering that plays with variations of meaning, gliding from pure thinking to an inner emotional movement on a high level of dynamic complexity. And this happens almost casually, without you even realising it!