Eva von Platen
14 Feb - 11 Apr 2012
EVA VON PLATEN
In Wald und Flur / Im Flur / Wir warten
Drawings, Collages and new Films
14 February – 11 April, 2012
The Finnish-German artist Eva von Platen (* 1965 in Frankfurt) presents her third solo exhibition in our gallery. It comprises a multitude of new works – four new films and more than 60 new drawings and collages.
The film „Freuds“ (2011) shows the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud in three different positions in a black room: kneeling, standing and sitting. Played as a loop „Freuds“ is shown in the same room as the threepart film installation „Traums“ (2011). The three sequences of this installation have different lenghts and through this polyphony of the three projections a new film comes into being over and over again – a never ending series of a surreal chain of associations – a filmic presentation of the Unconscious. Von Platen’s video works are not cut due to aspects of content but rather with respect to factors of the underlying music.
Central aspects of her films and drawings are the non-linear narration, the absence of hierarchies and climaxes. Within the paper works she links images, photographs, advertisements from the paper, texts, that she discovers, and other „left-overs“. The striking absurdity of these parts sometimes leaves the viewer appalled.
A central role plays the aspect of time in the drawings as well as in the films. The associative chain drawings visualize time as the „hopping between two images“. Coincidence and laughing have a central role as well.
What von Platen analyzes is not only the insanity that surrounds us daily and is considered as normal. It is more the structures that are behind it: family, marriage, the Pope, faith, obedience, upbringing, profession, work and holiday – the whole spectrum of promises on the grounds of which everything functions without ever being questioned. She accuses nobody, but reflects this collective insanity as for all of us and herself.
In Wald und Flur / Im Flur / Wir warten
Drawings, Collages and new Films
14 February – 11 April, 2012
The Finnish-German artist Eva von Platen (* 1965 in Frankfurt) presents her third solo exhibition in our gallery. It comprises a multitude of new works – four new films and more than 60 new drawings and collages.
The film „Freuds“ (2011) shows the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud in three different positions in a black room: kneeling, standing and sitting. Played as a loop „Freuds“ is shown in the same room as the threepart film installation „Traums“ (2011). The three sequences of this installation have different lenghts and through this polyphony of the three projections a new film comes into being over and over again – a never ending series of a surreal chain of associations – a filmic presentation of the Unconscious. Von Platen’s video works are not cut due to aspects of content but rather with respect to factors of the underlying music.
Central aspects of her films and drawings are the non-linear narration, the absence of hierarchies and climaxes. Within the paper works she links images, photographs, advertisements from the paper, texts, that she discovers, and other „left-overs“. The striking absurdity of these parts sometimes leaves the viewer appalled.
A central role plays the aspect of time in the drawings as well as in the films. The associative chain drawings visualize time as the „hopping between two images“. Coincidence and laughing have a central role as well.
What von Platen analyzes is not only the insanity that surrounds us daily and is considered as normal. It is more the structures that are behind it: family, marriage, the Pope, faith, obedience, upbringing, profession, work and holiday – the whole spectrum of promises on the grounds of which everything functions without ever being questioned. She accuses nobody, but reflects this collective insanity as for all of us and herself.