Die Sehnsucht der Zellen, / The Longing Of The Blood Cells, 2007
Overhead projector, berries and other parts of plants fallen from trees, nylon threads.
Site specific work in Centro Cultural Matucana 100, Santiago de Chile, October 2007
Plan And Planet, 2008
Installation. A small plastic toy ape attached to a styropor ball lays on an overhead projector, being moved back and forth by an electric fan. Round shadow projection through hole mask.
ANOMIE, 2007
Videoloop. This videoloop consists of a static and flickering background reminiscent of white noise, and vellicating, moving, shadowy outlines of plants and scrub. They are still part of nature - but through montage and contrast they seem technical and morbid. The editing forms a sort of strange, broken rhythm. Parts of nature, plants and leaves, mix and melt with a glimmering background of technical emptiness - the flickering of a TV. The colors are reduced and bleached out. It´s fast and very slow at the same time. Projected onto a free standing wall in the exhibition room (see picture on left top) the video tries to forms it´s own space. It´s structural and about structures. There´s no technical "trick" of editing, the camera with it´s own failures tries to focus and is often not able to. The foreground and the background are too much in motion to stabilize the focus.
Belarus, 2007
A small videoloop that deals with structures, with the movement of the eye, and the movement of elements.
In an almost painting-like setting, a classical image of nature, a tree line with (in this case) moving clouds, is being interrupted by colorful dots that appear in the sky. It seems the dots move on with the wandering clouds, only after a more intense look the viewer recognizes that they don´t move at all.
A lattice of color draws attention, interferes with a well-known image, and becomes something more than just an ornamental adjunct. A reminiscence to painting and psychedelia.
The World According To, 2007
Single slide projection work. The slide projection on the bottom of a wall looks like a globus or a view on earth from space - on first sight.
At a closer look difficulties appear: Where are the continents as we know them ? Where on earth are these huge mountains, or are they
clouds ? Which spaceship took which direction whereto, to take this image ? Who ever saw the earth like this ? Is it even our planet ?
In fact this "world" is only a round ornament of an old brick wall, changed by time and weather. Stains and moss formed the weird surface
structures in many years. The picture was taken digitally with flashlight at nightime, and then transfered onto slide material.
It´s a transformation not only of a wall ornament into something bigger („a“ world, or a planet) but also a transformation from
a digital original to an analogue ("warm") projection technique.
Reconstruction, 2007
DV-PAL Video, MiniDv, transferred to DVD, 5:16 min,Sound
By meaning of the word this video is a reconstruction of time spent in South America. It is not a touristic view on Santiago de Chile, no holiday photos brought home to show to friends, but an artistic approach to formulate a certain state of mind while travelling.
By knowing about the sheer impossibility to understand or fully experience a new place within only a couple of weeks, this video tries to reconstruct an athmosphere - outside, but also inside: In my body and mind. A melting of for example details of street lamps that become utopic houses under palm trees, masked people on the street who suddenly appear like phantoms and ghosts, cable railways that come from nowhere and go to nowhere, and the soundtrack of traffic chaos and a parade from far away.
