GRAMMATIK VII
(Englische Version)
1 109,2 x 10,0 x 11,0 cm I love you – I do not love you WV 2010-256
2 101,6 x 8,8 x 11,0 cm You love yourselves – You do not love yourselves WV 2010-257
3 91,4 x 8,8 x 11,0 cm He loves you – He does not love you WV 2010-258
4 81,3 x 7,5 x 11,0 cm She loves you – She does not love you WV 2010-259
5 71,1 x 7,0 x 11,0 cm It loves you – It does not love you WV 2010-260
6 63,5 x 6,0 x 11,0 cm We love you – We do not love you WV 2010-261
7 48,3 x 4,5 x 11,0 cm You love yourselves – You do not love yourselves WV 2010-262
8 40,6 x 4,0 x 11,0 cm They love you – They do not love you WV 2010-263

The installation Grammatik VII (2010) comprises sixty-four mobile-airplane propellers made of carbon. They are inscribed with sixty-four possible grammatical ways of conjugating the personal pronouns I, you, he, she, it, we, you (plural), and they together, in turn, with me, you, him, her, it, us, you and them along with the verb to love. On each propeller blade, one of the sixty-four possibilities is written out in both its negative and positive forms, for example, “I love you - I don’t love you” or “You love you - you don’t love you.” The variations are subdivided into eight lots of eight cases. Of these, eight propellers are mounted on the wall and linked to a motor. The writing becomes more and more illegible depending on the speed of rotation. The size of the eight propellers is based on the personal pronouns. The blade used for the first person singular is the biggest, while the third person plural is written on the smallest blade. The speed of the rotation is variable for each propeller, but it is not prescribed in advance. “Each conceivable speed is correct,” according to Voigt. A direction for the rotating movement is not fixed either. Starting out from notations as two-dimensional spheres of thought, Voigt’s three-dimensional works resolve around the very same issues: information and declination, communication and visualization. (Nexus, pp. 52)