Künstlerhaus Bethanien

Charlotte Clermont

Plant Dreaming Deep

11 Dec 2018 - 16 Jan 2019

Charlotte Clermont, Plant Dreaming Deep, Videostill
WINDOW DISPLAY

CHARLOTTE CLERMONT
Plant Dreaming Deep
11 December 2018 – 16 January 2019

Curated by Robert Seidel | www.robertseidel.com

Plant Dreaming Deep
Canada 2017
7:11 min

In poetic images, Plant Dreaming Deep exposes the exhausting transitional phases of loneliness, insecurity and isolation. By means of analogue video synthesis, fine-pored textures and washed out veils of colour were created, which find a suitable complement in the pulsating soundscape of Emilie Payeur. Like misunderstood or unprocessed experiences, the traces of old video recordings flash through this retro-futuristic collage and the main protagonist, the flora structured by human hands, appears simultaneously connected with freedom and suffocation.

Charlotte Clermont, *1990, lives and works in Montréal, Canada. | www.charlotteclermont.com

The on-going screening series Phantom Horizons presents digital as well as analogue works that question the paradigm of linear perspective, seeking a new kind of “status perspective” [Bedeutungsperspektive]. The latter was a development of ancient and medieval painting, in which the size of figures is determined by their hierarchical significance. Extending this approach using the methodology of deconstruction and the possibilities of contemporary film creation, the presented works open up multifaceted, unseen horizons.