Report on Probability B
(Report über die Möglichkeit B)

IMT Gallery, London
IMT Gallery
Article at Trebouchet Magazine London

The title of the exhibition refers to a book by Brian Aldiss from 1969, Report on Probablity A. This experimental science fiction describes to a series of interlocked realities observing each other.
12 Works from the series Space Odyssee are shown, in what could be called a post - civiliation museum, with this wooden images on display about a lost probability called Modernism. .

Der Titel der Ausstellung bezieht sich auf ein Buch von Brian Aldiss von 1969, Report on Probability B (Bericht über die Möglichkeit B). Dieser experimentelle Science Fiction beschreibt eine Serie von ineinander verschachtelten Realitäten, die sich gegenseitig bebachten. Zwölf Arbeiten aus Space Odyssee werden gezeigt, in einer Art nach-zivilisations Museum, mit diesen hölzernen Bildern als Ausstellungsstücken, die die verlorene Möglichkeit der Moderne.

Report on Probability B

If the one-eyed aliens come down to earth, dig out Modernism, and show a picture story of that in a melancholic chamber...

What we call reality is one probable version, which potentially exists beside many other versions. This is a classic in SciFi literature, and Brian Aldiss with his Report on Probability A (1968) wrote one of the most pure and iconic accounts of this. Utopian versions of the future where part of Modernism, as it was the believe in technical solutions to problems.
Schrats Report on Probability B is a sometimes melancholic revisiting of Modernism. If Modernism is not seen as a period with its own, questionable destination but as part of a developement – as Jaques Ranciere would see it – it becomes another Probabilty, a probability B.

The gallery space is transfered into a kind of museum, where 10 pictures are shown, protected against light with lids which have, in a voyeuristic move, to be lifted to see them. The pictures show the ‘Space Odyssee’ and tell the story about a journey to the stars, an earthling who finds and visits a one-eyed tribe out there in space. Remnants of Modernism appear in this retrospective, Donald Duck buried in the star-sand and Frank Lloyd Wrights House of the falling water appears, the water gone, a one eyed alien scratching the sand...
This 10 pictures are delicately made from different types of wood, Schrat had them done by a craftsman in India. They are artefacts in themselves, playing their part as objects in the installation.