2000 | Series of large-format posters, stage installation with shortened chairs. The piezo prints are autonomous works, but are also shown in an installation setting with the stage.
Phantom 00was created in collaboration with people of different ages, backgrounds, cultural and social affiliations. Fans were asked to describe the face of their idol from their imagination.
A digital photo archive, which the police use to produce phantom images, served as the source material. The faces were drawn and modeled until the descriptors were satisfied with the portrait of their idol.
«Basel artist Sonja Feldmeier’s Phantom 00 is a series of large format posters created with an advanced FBI drawing device that renders, step by step, a person’s mental picture of someone else into portrait form. Replacing the eye witness with various individuals from all walks of life, and an FBI staffer with herself, the artist moves an advanced technology normally devoid of artistic functions into the realm of art practice.» (Julie Dreamer)
Exhibitions
2002 1:1 Wrong Time Wrong Place #4, Espace d’art contemporain (les halles), Porrentruy
2001 Out of Bounds, Luckman Gallery, Los Angeles
2000 Phantom 00, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau