Three panels, stacked vertically, provide a glimpse into the interior of a large printing press. Gigantic offset machines print newspapers here daily. The content is printed onto seemingly endless rolls of paper, which are cut and folded by machines multiple times before reaching the kiosk in the typical newspaper format. In this process, the edges are also trimmed. The countless scraps from the edges of the newspapers finally fall from the conveyor belt like a waterfall of paper. In this multi-channel work, they cascade from the upper panel into the next and the next, like a semi-transparent curtain in front of the perspectives on the work of materializing the news.

Any production assumes consumption. Any production involves leftovers, unused elements, excess material. Observing the production of printed newspapers behind a waterfall of excess paper shreds inspires thoughts of newsworthy events that didn’t make the headline, nor any other section inside preconfigured containers governed by economic logic. The work suits any context that concerns issues of material scarcity, the use of organic matter, the purpose of forests, the business of narration, storytelling, politics, and counter-politics. In many ways, this work examines the machinery of the attention economy.

Running poetic beauty into rational observation, this meditative work grips its viewers through its insistence on the reality observed: the vast amount of material at stake in what is consumed in a highly superficial and selective manner. Yes, the news and gossip glue societies together, and yes, much of it is inflated.