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Karl von Orb - Artist in Berlin, Germany

Ship

2023

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Title

Ship

Year

2023

Dimensions

54 × 80 cm

Material

Fine art print on Hahnemühle paper

Description

The diagram is a historical instrument.
It was designed to quantify bodies, to render human life legible as cargo.

Here, the structure remains unchanged.
What fills it is no longer a body, but a sign.

The repeated emblem does not stand in for those who were confined.
It marks a system that has learned to circulate value without visibility.

What is shown is not equivalence, but substitution.
Extraction persists, while its sites and agents recede.

The image does not accuse.
It records continuity.