Clearing

ARTISTS:
ARINA BALAS, ANDREA D’ARSIÈ, DAMIANO FEMFERT,
MARIE-LYNN GUNKEL,MARIE NADJA HALLER, TIBOR KOEHNE, HANNAH RETTL, SILVIO SARACENO, ELISE STEILEN, FYNN STOLDT, ALEXANDER STUTE, JOSHUA TEWES-MCCOY, BEATRICE ZANESCO

Clearing is a video installation. A recurring vision haunts you; you engage in the pursuit of it. The vision slips away and with it, your grasp on reality.
Through different environments – the forest, the city, the house – the exhibition explores obsession and the coping mechanisms used to deal with it.
The video is a first impulse and acts as a red line between the objects created in response. Each environment shows a different phase of the process.
Forest: a small fountain with moving water gives off a constant background noise. Torches pointed at the water reflect the light above, where dead bees are hung from the ceiling. A video showing me – filmed by my sister / hanging from a digger / dressed as a crow.
City: a light box with a picture of the facade of my apartment building. The windows lit to form a heart.
House: an installation of a wooden wall – a living room picture printed onto it – a window cut out of it. Behind it, a screen fakes a window and shows presumable views. Three curtains with the silhouettes of a castle form the rest of the house. One side’s entrance: an arch.

concept by Hannah Rettl