Christine Camenisch | Johannes Vetsch
Havarie, 2022

7-Kanal Videoinstallation

mit Klangspur, 2022 von Fritz Hauser


Water sloshes on top of the grass growing on the riverbank. The light of the black and white projection, shimmering silver and cool, transforms the day into a night with a full moon. The embankment becomes a horizontal body; the grass becomes an animal’s long, waving fur. Sweeping noises with stoic regularity suggest further pictorial levels. A metallic screech in the distance reinforces the feeling of a disrupted, derailed idyll. Disturbance is in the air.

With just a single subject, the exhibition space is extensively explored. The structure created by the repetitive, uniform image—a collage of homologous elements—is devoid of hierarchy and order; its potential: to transform the existing architecture into a new place and, in conjunction with the soundtrack, to dissolve individual images and their representational content.

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