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2004
drawing:installation
wall drawing, mixed media on paper
78 drawings, 2.8 x 6 m
Galerie Koch und Kesslau, Berlin, DE
The installation of 78 drawings was realized at Galerie Koch und Kesslau. It is the first time that film is explicitly used as a source of imagery; at first as a model for sequences of images in which figurative contents and abstract structures overlap, invoking a perception of movement without in fact moving. The individual pictures arrested in the drawings come from The Battleship Potemkin and Rumble Fish. From these two films, which portray very different types of ‘insurrection’—the one, political and social revolution; the other, youthful rebellion—the work takes images of violence, which are often transformed to such a degree that the filmic source is no longer patently legible. The title filmografie is intended to anchor this reference. For the installation, a wall was inserted into the room that meets an existing wall at a right angle. The resulting corner was spray-painted red. The drawings in various formats were mounted as a block on this cloud of color. The wall on the left is taken up by black-and-white ‘film stills,’ complemented by washed-out paint spills, most of them in pale reds, ‘canceled’ by diagonal crosses. Mounted on the right-hand side wall are black-and-white and red moiré patterns, as an abstract echo chamber in which the garish pictorial information of the other wall might have been swallowed up.