A Free Moment
Video, 4 min, 2011
My work is an investigation into the relationship between representations of the past and our understanding of current and future processes. At its heart lies the reciprocation of photography and history, time and technology, and the exchange between the documenter, the documented, and the viewer. Mostly my work is aroused either by a site, a fact, a story, a document, or a specific biography of a person. Most often this starting point’s place in history is latent, forgotten, or erased. On the other hand, the work can also arise from a research into the specifics of a medium or a mate- rial characteristic such as grain, noise, duration, movement, or color. It is my ambition to synthesize those two independent wings, to create a hybrid of political concerns with media strategies.
Artist's bio:
I install the realised projects in such a way that the viewer encounters them physically, conveying my theoretical concerns. The viewer is encouraged to move around, get closer or further, look in front or behind, inside or outside the space of the images. I believe it is the viewer’s responsibility to engage with the presented work, to preform him/herself in relation to it. I also aspire to reshape the viewer’s experience of time by manipulating the dramatic time through editing, creating a feeling of a constant ongoing present. • In comparison to other moving images (TV, cinema) my works attempt to activate the viewer, to emancipate them from the tyranny of media, and to offer another path through the image via art.