After Raymond Roussel
As in Raymond Roussel's Locus Solus, Schulze's works also unfold catalogs of the monstrous: apparatuses that are simultaneously machine and corpse, relic and animal, plant and myth. Typewriters sprout blossoms, skulls, and masks; bones become mills, friezes endless archives of memory.
Both worlds—Roussel's literary park and Schulze's sculptural pictorial spaces—are driven by the same logic: the urge to transform the banal into the fantastic, the scientific into poetry, the documentary into the grotesque. In both, the thing itself speaks, entangled in protocol and obsession, an inventory of the uncanny.
Thus, in Roussel's work, language becomes a machine that gives birth to images—and in Schulze's, a machine that drives bodies. In both cases, a universe emerges that is simultaneously archive and dream, exhumation and incantation.
Dr. Pelle Solus
Dr. Pelle Solus