• THE TWIN PARADOX
  NOA GINIGER
• 03 - 22 MAY, 2009 
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Opening brunch sunday 3rd may 2009, 11.00-18.00

The twin paradox is a thought experiment in special theory of relativity, in which a twin who makes a journey into space in a high-speed rocket will return home to find he has aged less than his identical twin who stayed on Earth.

This paradox is based on the phenomenon of “time dilation” whereby an observer finds that another's clock, which is physically identical to his own, is ticking at a slower rate as measured by his own clock. This is interpreted as time “slowing down” for the other clock, but that is only true in the context of the observer's frame of reference...

This thought is the common denominator gathering the six pieces exhibited in THE TWIN PARADOX: motion is relative, time does slow down, reverse, loop or forward as far as it is seen by a specific observer, as far as it refers only to his system, to his memory or his intimate world. And if this condition is not fulfilled, it does sometimes bring us to paradox: that’s when the borders to science fiction are reached.

03.05 - 22.05 / tues-sat 11.00-18.00
Contributed, Studio for the arts / Strausberger Platz 16, 10243 Berlin

with the support of Vöslauer, Budweiser and ASA90 fotoladen