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Kill your Darling, 2013
HD-Video, 11'50''
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The video work Landscape with river and carousel in suburb combines different levels and techniques to an image of the disorientation of being part of the postmodern world. This contains the antagonism of the elapsing of time in the interior and exterior, the perception of the world through a monitor as counterpart, and the conclusion: it's not possible to create a real living counterpart by yourself. The story is set in an oppressive and narrow suburb with empty carousel and power plant, inspired by the photograph Amos Coal Power Plant, Raymond, West Virginia, 2004, by Mitch Epstein. The buildings and the whole environment are handmade by the artist from cardboard. This questions the doubtful fragility of the „reality“ constructed by culture. The buldings and the non-verbal plot can be read as psychological images, for example the carousel which is rotating without passengers. This can be seen as an image for the lost childhood of the leading character. In this suburb is living the german equivalent of the Simpsons-Family.
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Only the son is aware of the message of the Matrix quotation which they see in TV: regard your situation from a meta-Level!This is followed by his desperate efforts to break out of the siotuation. He will re-develop his animal origins. The nature around the building is reacting... . The myth of Pygmalion is one of the oldest myths about the producing of art, which can be seen as „break out“ of the cultural construction of reality. Through the failing is asked the question, if it is possible to break wirh the „cultural formatting“, and if an easy escape in an other level of reality can succeed. All occuring persons are played by the artist herself. |