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VERA MOLNAR: OTTWW (Ode to the West Wind), 1981 – 2010
UV-sensitive thread, nails, variable dimension
OTTWW is an uninterrupted, complex and continuous line running across the walls of the room in the form of a UV-sensitive thread stretched by nails. Inspired by the classic poem Ode to the West Wind by 19th-century English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, the conceptual work builds on the artist’s earlier graphic variations around the letter W.
The artist, a pioneer of computer art, translated the poem into an enigmatic algorithm.  The undecipherable logic of the algorithm is compensated for by the sensory experience of the rhythmic line.
Barnabás Bencsik
The installation was reconstructed by Péter Szalay.