L'animoteur 4

background

My image work for the exhibition 'Leichtbekömmlich' is based on the image work «L'animoteur 1», realized in 2015 in the large format of 130 x 190 cm for the exhibition 'CENTER PARTING' in Kaskadenkondensator in Basel. For the work «L'animoteur 4» I have adjusted the format to the targets of the exhibition concept 'Leichtbekömmlich', which asked for a format no bigger than 50cm x 50cm (x 50cm).

the image work

A picture scene that I realized in the ATACAMA desert, the driest desert on earth, shows a dead animal body (donkey) in side position and a human body in prone position with the head towards the animal.

The picture carrier is attached to the wall by means of a screw through the centre of the picture. An eyelet reinforces the screw guide. Two identical square plates are mounted on the wall and at the back of the picture. The picture can be rotated endlessly at an angle of 360 degrees. The shimmering rotational movement always brings the picture into a different position. It is intended to trigger a movement in the viewer's head, or perhaps animate him or her to inves­tigate the movement and the settling of the picture into a position themselves. After the rotation stops, the two bodies come to a halt at a new angle and thus repeatedly show themselves in a different constel­lation in space.

On the one hand, I wanted to evoke the insta­bility of the image and thus question the viewer's point of view. Its inter­vention disturbs the picture and possibly also injures it - the picture surface is mounted on a stadur plate, on a very light and unstable material. On the other hand, I ask myself the question, what is the identity of these two bodies, where do their boundaries, the boundaries between man and animal, melt away. Between the head of the animal body and the human head, a parting line could be seen that runs through the image. The hole in the middle has, so to speak, become its repre­sen­tative.