INSTALLATION: the two videos should be installed as large projections, opposite of each other, both looping.
ASCENSION2004, video DV PAL (aspect ratio 4:3), color, 1:11, stereo. The glass elevator at the luxurious hotel Marriott Marquis in New York brings you to "heaven" ... We are brought up and tought to strive for higher things – success, wealth, honour, and/or spiritual enlightenment. ASCENSION shows – in a brief and ironic way - this aspiration and its compensation. |
DEPRESSION MARQUIS2009, video DV PAL (aspect ratio 4:3), color, 2:23, stereo. The glass elevator at the luxurious hotel Marriott Marquis in New York drives down - the long ride ends in glacier ice. A Metaphor for depressions which can affect people living in abundance. | |
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