Girardet & Müller
24 - 26 May 2012
GIRARDET & MÜLLER
Festival Viva Off Madrid 2012
24 – 26 May 2012
Distrito 4 participates in the Festival VIVA OFF Madrid 2012 with the video Maybe Siam of German artists Christoph Girardet and Matthias Müller. This work is the most recent video collage of the artists in which they focus on aspects of visual perception – and it’s opposite: blindness. Spinning a dense net of references, this work is as image-rich as it is an exercise in denial: like an eye that cannot see, black separates the images of film clips that show blind people taking on the limits of their condition, bumping into walls and furniture as though imprisoned in hostile and unnatural environments.
Girardet and Müller have been successfully collaborating since their found footage work Phoenix Tapes, a high-profile contribution to Notorious – Alfred Hitchcock and Contemporary Art at the Oxford Museum of Modern Art in 1999. Their work has been screened at the festivals of Cannes, Venice and Berlin and exhibited at major art institutions worldwide, such as the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, and Deichtorhallen, Hamburg.
Festival Viva Off Madrid 2012
24 – 26 May 2012
Distrito 4 participates in the Festival VIVA OFF Madrid 2012 with the video Maybe Siam of German artists Christoph Girardet and Matthias Müller. This work is the most recent video collage of the artists in which they focus on aspects of visual perception – and it’s opposite: blindness. Spinning a dense net of references, this work is as image-rich as it is an exercise in denial: like an eye that cannot see, black separates the images of film clips that show blind people taking on the limits of their condition, bumping into walls and furniture as though imprisoned in hostile and unnatural environments.
Girardet and Müller have been successfully collaborating since their found footage work Phoenix Tapes, a high-profile contribution to Notorious – Alfred Hitchcock and Contemporary Art at the Oxford Museum of Modern Art in 1999. Their work has been screened at the festivals of Cannes, Venice and Berlin and exhibited at major art institutions worldwide, such as the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, and Deichtorhallen, Hamburg.