Edition – "Ernstes Spiel: Verlesen"

The index "Lektüre und Ablenkung" [Reading and Distraction] deals with the inevitable distractions and wanderings of attention that you cannot avoid when reading a book. The feeling that at the end of a page you ask yourself what you have just read, because although you have grasped the words and your eyes have jumped from line to line, your thoughts have fled to a completely different topic. These distractions were documented, noted and elaborated by Müller: from text notes, under- lining, critical commentaries to photographic collages, superimpositions of the text, drawings and cut-outs, which stand alongside facsimile copies of the pages of Jacques Derrida’s "Of Spirit", his critical examination of Martin Heidegger’s philosophy.
This edition takes up a recurring motif in "Lektüre und Ablenkung": the crossing out and blackening of entire passages of text, with the exception of a few words that remain legible. From these at first glance cryptic frag- ments, multi-layered sentences emerge, which Müller appropriates and condenses into pencilled statements.
A revelation of the condition of every reading, that the reader brings something to the text and always reads something subjectively colored out of it, documenting an interplay between text and reader, author and artist.