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GiG Munich (solo exhibition)
curated by Magdalena Wisniowska
Mai 2021
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Images:
Elke Dreier, VG Bildkunst, 2021
video installation
2 channel, sound, 30‘
2018-2020
Contemplation of the Forest is the filmed representation and staging of a forest clearing from different perspectives, negotiating questions of perceptual boundaries as well as sensation and memory.
The first of the two projection screens shows a real-time recording of the clearing. On the opposite
projection, sentences are interwoven with different interpretations of the clearing. Two birdcall imitators develop a dialogue from the chirping of the clearing. Another sequence shows recordings of a xylotheque, and in another a philosopher explains possible knowledge based on congruent perception.