D21

In the context of D21 Screening, two works of the Berlin based video artist and photographer Sascha-Jacqueline Bachmann will be presented. The artist's work centers around emotionally disturbing topics - very often topics situated in the private sphere. Their public presentation for the people passing by Demmeringstrasse will be of particular interest.


muttermund / mother's mouth – uterus (video, 3:43 min, 2005)
This silent movie consists of a black screen with subtitles. By this means ever so intense individual images are evoked with the viewer. "muttermund" is dealing with the physical and emotional abuse of a child by its mother. The ambiguity of the German title correlates with motherly instincts on the one hand and violence executed by verbal and physical attacks on the other hand.

First Aid (video, 3:31 min, 2007)
Sadness is the subject of this photographic projection. Bachmann is interested in those moments when the various facets of this particular feeling are represented by crying. Images of a sad, crying adult are unusual, made public only when in connection with the loss of a beloved person through death or catastrophe. Emotional pain, despair, fear etc. do not form part of society's norms, crying happens mainly within the private confines, behind closed doors. The film is dealing with that psychological transformation and the emotional and mental process in the very instant of all-being-with-yourself.


Sascha-Jacqueline Bachmann
born 1968, lives and works in Berlin, 1995 - 2002 studied art photography at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, class of Timm Rautert