Flipper Mit Roten Tränen 1996

Thomas Hirschhorn made this thing, Flipper Mit Roten Tranen, and I imagine the act of building it, how it must have shifted and emerged through trial, error, and intuition. I sympathize with Thomas and imagine what it might have been like to create this piece. Maybe he was thinking about how objects can contain and express feeling. The material aspects of this installation, like the plastic, wood, and those red, tear-like objects, shape our experience and contribute to the work's emotional resonance. It is as if the whole thing is weeping. Hirschhorn's wider practice seems to play with the physical world as a way of getting into some deeper human stuff. His work reminds me a bit of Kurt Schwitters, who built his own Merzbau out of found objects and scraps. Artists, you know, they're always in conversation with each other across time. I think that the most exciting art embraces ambiguity and uncertainty and it's up for grabs what it means.