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UPPER EDGE
2024-2025
site-specific video sculpture 200 x 920 x 45 cm
metal construction, 9 plasma monitors, 9 media players, network switch
synchronized 9-channel video 2’56” min in loop, b/w, sound
Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf
UPPER EDGE is part of a diptych that was shown for the first time in the “Reformator” art space as part of the solo exhibition LOWER EDGE UPPER EDGE (29.11.2024 – 11.01.2025). The exhibition was named after two video sculptures created for the “Reformator”.
In the context of the “EU UA” exhibition at “Weltkunstzimmer”, UPPER EDGE is shown as a stand-alone video sculpture.
Text to the exhibition LOWER EDGE UPPER EDGE:
My material is what is commonly called by the word video. But video nowadays is more associated with cinema, with narrative. And what I do is light and rhythm in space. The mythological beginning of the world. A world before man. Without stories.
I have minimized the light to a strip that moves on a black background and called it LINEMENT: a word composed word from English line + element. With LINEMENT, I divide architectural space into heaven and earth, creating landscapes inside buildings.
Landscapes interest me as a representation of the edge of the earth, and the edge of the earth as a theme of the transcendental and the unknown. I love being in such landscapes and my works are inspired by them.
This exhibition is named after two video installations made specifically for this exhibition space: LOWER EDGE and UPPER EDGE.
The LOWER EDGE is the boundary between the sea and the land, marked by lines in constant motion. It is assembled along the main ten-meter wall with twelve monitors turned sequentially in relation to each other, showing the constantly changing movement of a white line that appears and disappears on a black background.
The UPPER EDGE – a line that fluctuates but does not disappear – is the horizon. It is stretched diagonally across the second room, angled towards the main hall, and is made up of nine monitors raised at eye level, showing a nine-channel synchronized video with a white fluctuating band.
These two lines of multiple monitors are contrasted by the video KINBURN RUN, presented on a single monitor. The monitor shows a figure running along the shore, positioned so that the lines from the monitors on the left and right form a continuation of the landscape in the video.
The landscape in the video is the virtual Kinburn Spit, where my personal art museum is located. The museum exists in the form of a computer game called KINBURN.
PS. At “Weltkunstzimmer” there is only OBERRAND, as if you have already left the LOWER EDGE behind you. A large distance to the work allows the view from afar and slowly approach it.
The sound comes from the virtual museum KINBURN.
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