In Your Room

2007 | video installation

«In the video installation In Your Room, the artist dissolves the tension-laden dramaturgy of nested interior and exterior worlds for a brief moment. The installative dispositif - a forest-like structure of rusty building supports - draws a semicircle in the area in front of the large-format projection, which continues in the video as a ‹image background›. It shows a female drummer whose burka covers not only her body and face, but also the drums. As the camera slowly zooms away from her eyes, she begins to play; restrained at first, but the more her figure and the swirling fabric whipped up by her arm movements become visible, the more brilliant her solo becomes. Shortly before the end of the loop, the camera turns towards the viewer. In this brief moment, real space and image space, audience and image figure are short-circuited with each other. For fractions of a second, which lie exactly between the camera pan and the close-up, both penetrate the membrane and dive into the world of their counterpart." (Irene Müller)



Exhibitions
2011 CAFÉ DES RÊVES,Helmhaus Zürich  
2009 In Your Room, Galerie Ruzicska/Weiss, Düsseldorf
2007 Inhale Exhale, Kunsthalle Sankt Gallen, St. Gallen

Festivals und Screenings
2021 Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur
2013 Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film, Durham/ Canada
2011 Schweizer Videokunst, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Solothurn
2010 Videonale, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn
2010 International Art Film Festival of Montreal, Montreal
2010 56th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen
2010 Videokunst aus der Schweiz, Kunsthaus Aarau, Aarau
2010 Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival (NIFFF), CAN, Neuchâtel
2009 Basler Filmpreis, Kategorie Kunstfilm, BaselExhibitions
2009 In Your Room, Galerie Ruzicska/Weiss, Düsseldorf
2007 Inhale Exhale, Kunsthalle Sankt Gallen, St. Gallen

Text
Irene Müller, Kunstbulletin 6/2010 (download)