why is it never enough

The video work ‘why is it never enough’ by Clemens Wittkowski relentlessly visualizes our tendency to push things to the limit and rightly asks why it is never enough. In a single sequence, a hemp rope stretched to breaking point crunches under the tensile forces. A captivating piano composition immanently permeates the minimal movements and impulses of the rope. Restlessness sets in. Increasingly grueling. But the outcome is as surprising as it is allegorical. The rope does not break and a powerful sound collage of suffering, excitement, love, and struggle, as well as an accompanying text that quotes ‘why is it never enough’ in the ten most spoken languages in the world, together concludes: it will simply go on.