BREEDS CONTEMPT

(vertrautheit)

"Breeds contempt" is a video installation, a symmetrical projection of 2 separate videos. It was created for ResidencyShot exhibition and was presented in GlogauAir institute, in Berlin on March 2013.

 

Similar pairs of interior and exterior spaces were projected simultaneously on the walls of a symmetrical space. Symmetry was stressed by the 2 plants placed on the floor. 

The work instigated various reactions from the visitors. A lot of them asked me whether i had filmed the same or different spaces because some elements of the spaces appear identical and others structurally different. Creating this ambiguity was in my initial goals so raising these questions meant i had achieved my creative aims. I avoided answering in order to maintain this sense of confusion in the viewer and also to allow him to have his own interpretation of the work.

 

  Video Presentation

 

 

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The piece is a video installation of 2 separate big sized projections. Here the 2 videos are edited side by side for online presentation.

 

 

Caption from "breeds contempt"

I am using architecture to speak about psychological structures and human perception.This work is the result of a research on repetition, familiarity, topology (no - oriental surfaces) and parallel realities.