FROM THE SOLO EXHIBITION ”PARK...
FROM THE SOLO EXHIBITION ”PARKING LOT LIMBO” IN MOGADISHNI 2006”PARKING LOT LIMBO” is a large-scale video installation. The viewer encounters a construction which is a room within the gallery space. Near the entrance there are a couple of umbrellas. It’s raining inside the room and the viewer must use the umbrellas for protection against the artificial rain. In the room at the end wall there’s a film showing and the viewer is placed in a setting similar to what’s shown in the film. In the pouring rain the viewer experiences the fiction. In this sense fiction and reality is brought together and the viewer becomes a part of the fictitious universe.
The film is an endless, continuously running loop – like a dream that never stops – however with a certain narrative progression. The story takes place in a parking lot at night in the rain. The focal point is a man who is in a state of limbo – in depressed paranoia, which develops into manic joy. Limbo is a mental state filled with uncertainty, which makes it difficult to move on.
Jacob Tжkker often places himself as the central character in his video installations, which deals with the human emotional state of mind, the routine of everyday life and the conceptions of and motives for manґs actions.
The video installations also show the tragicomic aspects of life in images that often manipulate and comment on the relationship between fiction and reality.