Dorothea Strauss (Kunstbulletin 7/2001)
... Rappenecker does not set out to create a counter-world to reality, for it would be naïve to imagine that in our multi-media-based world there could be any talk of assuming the presence of a real relative, as it were, which we could then take as the basis for construing something like a counter-world. Instead, he is interested in shifts that fruitfully attack strong emotions and customary ways of seeing. "Somewhere not here" tells a topical and thus heterogeneous story about the search for physical reality as a possible symbol of the last bastion of real forms of relating to one another.
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