Civilization – the Pleasure Principle
YEAR: 2013
MATERIAL: HD-film, aspect 16H9, color film
DUR: 10 min
MATERIAL: HD-film, aspect 16H9, color film
DUR: 10 min
INSTALLATION VIEW, GALLERY WETTERLING 2013
In Civilization - The Pleasure Principle hypnotic prone pictures emerges from the actual dirt we throw away from us through well-developed sewage treatment systems we are taking for granted. Its filmed in and around waste water treatment plants. Layers of social criticism are intertwined with a fascination for our contemporarys abilities of denial and utter waste. This work deals with purity and danger, pleasure and pain and where to draw the line between those. Its also unfolding an unawareness most of us live under, where we thoughtlessly produce dirt and expect pure and drinkable water in a tap everywhere.
Throughout the ongoing flow and never cessation of liquids and filthy dirty surfaces bred a kind of trance, which takes us beyond logic and reason. Suddenly we see only a flow of different smudges, blasted rock walls, solitary plants representing a luxuriant nature, a pumping, one upside down, one in and out. Where am I? The footage and the music moves us to a place beyond space and time, it's real, but clearly a different sort of reality.
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Throughout the ongoing flow and never cessation of liquids and filthy dirty surfaces bred a kind of trance, which takes us beyond logic and reason. Suddenly we see only a flow of different smudges, blasted rock walls, solitary plants representing a luxuriant nature, a pumping, one upside down, one in and out. Where am I? The footage and the music moves us to a place beyond space and time, it's real, but clearly a different sort of reality.
STILLS FROM FILM
STILLS FROM FILM