A woman falls through the grids of the windows; old chairs appear in a new dress: Anouk Sebald's video, objects, images revolve around identity, around the bottomless feeling of time passing.
Anouk Sebald is an artist whose work combines a whole range of artistic practices: From photography, performance and video to objects, textiles and painting. After training in dance, she was a self-taught painter before she began using photography, video and performance to interrogate the body and identity under the pseudonym Louise Eliot. Her art still revolves around the central themes of (among others) bodily identity, time and perception, but in different media and with a broader perspective that includes subjects such as textiles/coverings (such as clothing or furniture upholstery), historical objects and spaces.
In /Project Links/, Sebald shows a group of works created specifically for the space. The video work Frames of Reference is projected across the entire gridded window front of the room and is thus visible in the evening, even outside opening hours. One sees a figure in a dress sewn by the artist herself floating, falling or swimming across the window in various positions - depending on the position, angle of view and interpretation. The title refers to the framework conditions under which we recognise, classify and assign identities to things or people. The work is in direct dialogue with the wall installation Floating Frames. It consists of individual works in frames that trigger associations with different periods of time, ideas of design and art. The Polaroids, drawings, collages and prints also pick up on themes of time, transience and identity, for example with the motif of flowers or by reworking historical portraits. Floral patterns also reappear on the fabrics with which the artist reupholstered 2 chairs from 1962 in her work 3 Seconds. Here again, the artist's motifs enter into a dialogue with objects from a specific time. As a commentary on our perception of time and belonging determined by patterns and frames, they question the construction of identity.
Exhibitioniert
Anouk Sebald is an artist whose work combines a whole range of artistic practices: From photography, performance and video to objects, textiles and painting. After training in dance, she was a self-taught painter before she began using photography, video and performance to interrogate the body and identity under the pseudonym Louise Eliot. Her art still revolves around the central themes of (among others) bodily identity, time and perception, but in different media and with a broader perspective that includes subjects such as textiles/coverings (such as clothing or furniture upholstery), historical objects and spaces.
In /Project Links/, Sebald shows a group of works created specifically for the space. The video work Frames of Reference is projected across the entire gridded window front of the room and is thus visible in the evening, even outside opening hours. One sees a figure in a dress sewn by the artist herself floating, falling or swimming across the window in various positions - depending on the position, angle of view and interpretation. The title refers to the framework conditions under which we recognise, classify and assign identities to things or people. The work is in direct dialogue with the wall installation Floating Frames. It consists of individual works in frames that trigger associations with different periods of time, ideas of design and art. The Polaroids, drawings, collages and prints also pick up on themes of time, transience and identity, for example with the motif of flowers or by reworking historical portraits. Floral patterns also reappear on the fabrics with which the artist reupholstered 2 chairs from 1962 in her work 3 Seconds. Here again, the artist's motifs enter into a dialogue with objects from a specific time. As a commentary on our perception of time and belonging determined by patterns and frames, they question the construction of identity.
Exhibitioniert
Frames of Reference I/ II / Videoinstallation Galerie DuflonRacz, Bern/ 1920 x 10807 / 2 -channel synch/color/no sound/1"46 /2018
