Nothing, Exhibition (2021)

Installation, invited by Roman Zheleznyak at Rottstr5-Kunsthallen Bochum, DE

White Balance is a three-channel video installation based on a performance. I move through a room in a full-body suit in front of a video camera without any predetermined sequences. The room has white walls and a light grey floor. The aperture of the camera is wide open so that the boundaries of the body and the room are not clearly recognisable. A single body can be seen in flowing transitions to the room. An audio work becomes accessible via headphones: slightly distorted sounds of joint movements and breathing in the room as well as sounds from outside can be heard.

The video work is extended in the room by the fabric work White Balance (textile version) and the electronic music piece Nothing is changing: a montage of an improvisation with a software synthesiser by Detlef Klepsch and my voice. The fabric work shows video stills from one of the three channels of the video installation: printed on a decorative fabric, the images lie on the floor and viewers move along the track to see the sequence of images.

The works visualise the idea of dissolving boundaries and involve viewers in this specific perception of space and the body.

photos Detlef Klepsch