CHRISTOPH KELLER Christoph Keller, Introduction | Page 52

ARCHIVAL PROJECTS, 2006 – 2007
The works in this series consists of collections of images of observatories and chemtrails, which are
all drawn from the Internet. The aesthetics of their fuzzy and grainy resolution, which shows their
digital source. The collections of images constitute an archive, whose order and structure remains
opaque. For instance, the cultural phenomenon of observatories, tools that are normally used to
investigate extraterrestrial realms of the universe, is objectified and looked upon from a point of view,
whose intention and reason remains utterly foreign to its beholder.
Keller’s works are ultimately less about scientific cognition itself than about the motivating forces
behind them. Their desire and their specific goals provide information about what moves a society.
In this sense Keller is also increasingly interested in pseudoscientific phenomena such as hypnosis
and conspiracy theories which, as “scientific constructs,” are similarly expressions of a certain social
consciousness. But Keller also connects science and art in his approach by linking the methodol-
ogies and techniques of the former with the psychosomatic experience of art: the observer himself
sometimes becomes a field researcher and the exhibition venue itself becomes an observatory.
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