DECONSTRUCTION OF FILM
Titanic, Die Hard, Jungle Book, The Matrix, Forrest Gump, Pulp Fiction, Pretty Woman, Back to the Future, Fight Club, etc.: iconic films that have become deeply embedded in the collective memory of society, of a particular (cultural) space and time period.
Mainstream is often used with a negative connotation, but in the most positive sense it creates a collective memory and thus becomes, even decades later, a strong link between the individuals of a society.
OBJECTS: Magnetic tape
The reduction to the data carrier magnetic tape, itself a relic from another time, creates a new visuality that assigns the film materiality its own aesthetic and raison d'être. In combination with the cinematic memories of the respective viewer and his physical reflection on the mirroring surface, a new visual experience is created.
The Jungelbook 1967
105 x 105 cm
Magnetic tape original film
(woven)
Titanic 1997
105 x 105 cm
Magnetic tape original film
(woven)
The Exorcist 1973
105 x 105 cm
Magnetic tape original film
(woven)
OBJECTS: Filmtext
The text works on canvas visualise the entire spoken word of a film. From a distance, only linear structure. From close up, immersion in the dialogues and monologues of the protagonists. What is actually an auditory film experience becomes a visual one: the whole film at a glance.
Fight Club 1999
300 x 50 cm
Print on canvas
Love Actually 2003
300 x 50 cm
Print on canvas
OBJECTS: Filmstills
The series on velvet fabric shows iconic scenes from blockbuster films.
Scenes that everyone knows and that are symbolic of the whole film – whether you have seen it or not. Even in total blur, like a distant memory, the viewer can add the colour fields back to the film scene stored in his or her memory.
Pulp Fiction 00:46:27
100 x 100 cm
Print on velvet fabric
Forrest Gump 00:03:19
100 x 100 cm
Print on velvet fabric
Dirty Dancing 00:42:25
100 x 100 cm
Print on velvet fabric
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