White Balance, Textile and Single Channel Version (2024)

White Balance is based on a movement improvisation: I move through a space in a full-body suit in front of a video camera without any predetermined sequences. The space has white walls and a light grey floor. The aperture of the camera is wide open so that the boundaries of the room are not clearly recognisable. A single undefined body can be seen in an undefined space. The single-channel version consists of a montage of video stills.

The fabric work White Balance transfers the temporal sequence of the moving images into the space: the images are printed on a decorative fabric and lie on the floor, with the viewer moving along the fabric to see the sequence of images.

The work is extended by the electronic music piece Nothing is changing: a montage of an improvisation with a software synthesiser by Detlef Klepsch and a recording of my partially processed voice; our reactions to concrete and darkness, currents and energy.

White Balance is part of a series of works that deal with body and space, image borders and imagination: Suture, White Balance, Nothing, Subcooled and Likeness (in process). I started this series after I worked on an essay on VALIE EXPORTs works.

The essay was published in 2017 under the title Dekonstruktion von Körper-/Zeichen by VALIE EXPORT in: Künstlerinnen schreiben. Selected contributions to art theory from three centuries edited by Renate Kroll and Susanne Gramatzki.