Barbara Breitenfellner
dal 15/5/2003 al 28/6/2003
Segnalato da
15/5/2003
Barbara Breitenfellner
Le Bureau d'art et de recherche, Roubaix
Film (non-realise'). Whatever medium she uses, the work of Barbara Breitenfellner is characterized by disturbance and strangeness. Using found super-8 film material, doubling spaces with simple mirror surfaces or working with projections from live-surveillance cameras, she tries to trouble the beholder.
Film (non-r�alis�)
Whatever medium she uses, the work of Barbara Breitenfellner is
characterized by disturbance and strangeness. Using found super-8 film
material, doubling spaces with simple mirror surfaces or working with
projections from live-surveillance cameras, she tries to trouble the
beholder. For the most part, the material itself has nothing provocative -
it comes from fleamarkets of Berlin, the film school in Babelsberg or the
film archives of the Goethe Institut in Lille. It is the way of assembling
it which produces a disquieting atmosphere. For her work, entitled Film
(non-r�alis�), she arranges carnivorous plants, magnetic tapes, 16mm films
and cine-film editing equipment in a greenhouse. This exhibition, like a
large part of her work, derives from the daily journal where she notes her
dreams. 'They are strange, ugly and contradictory in content and style. In
using them as a material for my artistic production, I am interested in
both, their spontanous qualities and their tyrranic nature', she says. A
work that might easily be related to surrealism for some people, but it is
probably better to consider the everyday of Jonas Mekas or the atmospheres
of Mike Nelson.
A multiple accompanies the installation. Made-to-measure entomology boxes in
which Barbara Breitenfellner arranges pages of her diary with objects,
facsimiles and original photographies. Those near vitrines are a memory of
the artistic project, its archive and its source. The multiple should be
seen in relation to the main piece, the greenhouse. Both were developed at
the same time and from similar materials.
With Film (non-r�alis�), the German artist Barbara Breitenfellner, born in
Austria in 1969, presents a major installation in France for the first time.
After a BA in literature and fine arts from the University of Mainz and an
MFA from the Glasgow School of Art, she takes part in residencies and
exhibitions (Denmark, USA, Scotland) and settles in early 2002 in Berlin.
In the image: 'cast', Studio view.
Opening Friday 16th May, 6:30 p.m.
The exhibition Film (non-r�alis�), which will also be shown in Berlin this
autumn,
received support from the Institut f�r Auslandsbeziehungen
(Stuttgart-Berlin), the Goethe Institut Lille
and from Juliana (Denmark).
Edition
_ Two multiples, 10 copies (& 2 a.p.), signed & numbered,
price: 600 e/each, 1.000 e/both
_ 4 free cards during the exhibition
_ To be published in summer 2003:
1 folded poster presenting the project Film (non-r�alis�)
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