Jeanne Faust
dal 22/1/2008 al 12/4/2008
Segnalato da
22/1/2008
Jeanne Faust
Museum Ludwig, Koln
Excuse me brother. Faust's conceptual films and photographs point to a cinematographic and visual memory with a strong cultural turn. She stages scenes that appear to be everyday, but that could equally be taken from a movie. Moments of imagination and projections of feelings that infiltrate our perception and interpretation of images play an important part in her films.
Jeanne Faust’s conceptual films and photographs point to a cinematographic and visual memory with a strong cultural turn. She stages scenes that appear to be everyday, but that could equally be taken from a movie. Moments of imagination and projections of feelings that infiltrate our perception and interpretation of images play an important part in Jeanne Faust’s films. Yet she avoids taking quotes from films, preferring rather to draw on the stock of cinematographic impressions that have become a part of our cultural visual memory. In her films existing, recalled and anticipated images dissolve from one to the next in a hybrid mixture of pose and staging.
Throughout the course of Jeanne Faust’s latest film "excuse me brother", the protagonists’ dialogue shifts increasingly from what can be seen, from commentaries on a praying mantis being prepared by a taxidermist, to what is unseen, to the inner state of the people involved. Faust further intensifies this departure from the action so as to prompt reflections on how elements of the imagination flow into our interpretations of images, and how meaning is created through the complex interrelationship between image and language.
Museum Ludwig
Bischofsgartenstrasse 1 - Koln