No Audible Dialogue

... No Audible Dialogue consists of two photographs, of two scenes with a narration
that can be described as alternation (on one photograph we see Vajd back/Alt face, on
the other Vajd face/Alt back; while one is “here” due to its face, the other is “gone” and
vice versa). In this work they inhabit only the photographic space. Instead of reflecting
– it does not matter how well or tenderly – the intimacy of the symbolic reality between
and surrounding them, Vajd & Alt multiply it into inflexible spaces of alterity. What are
these spaces? Photo-graphic archives constructed from hundreds of photographs.
Ambivalent vis-a-vis the medium of photography, we see Vajd & Alt only on two photo-
graphs, each situated on a proper pile built from hundreds of other photo-graphs we
will never have a chance to go through and see, as they are as such presented only as
re-photographed piles of photographs. Vajd & Alt’s intimacy is therefore a remnant of
the intimacy within the medium of photography; it is a memory of intimacy produced
by the materiality of a photo-graphic archive. As such, it is intimacy captured not
“person to person,” but as a commentary on the photographic condition of possibility
in a time of its digitalization and globalization. ...

Marina Grzinic, 2006