Ene-Liis Semper, Kiwa
Oasis
| Artist: | Ene-Liis Semper (1969 - ), Kiwa (1975 - ) |
| Title: | Oasis |
| Date: | 1999 |
| Technique: Material: |
video betacam |
| Film/movie length: | 00:04:00 |
| Description: | Two TV-sets in a dark gallery, with the screens showing the faces of both of the artists (Ene-Liis Semper and Kiwa) turned upwards, appear like a bed with two people lying next to each other. The identical motif on the parallel screens - the artists planting flowers in each other's mouths - shows the two figures, despite of the seemingly cheerful appearance, blending into nature in an extremely agonizing fashion. The gap between the brutality of systematic self-denial, characteristic of performativity, and the cheerfulness of the video presentation deepens human distance from nature, from other people and in the end, from ourselves. The installation is rendered even more intense by the experience of stepping into the dark space and looking down on the artists from a position of a lover, a gardener and a torturer. The artists are talking to the voyeur inside each member of the audience, who is either feeling flattered or trapped. Hanno Soans |
| Related categories: | Contemporary Art |
| Copyright notice: | Art Museum of Estonia |
| AME collection: | Contemporary Art Collection |
| Collection number: | FV 158 |
| Accretion number: | EKM j 49835 |
| File info: |
File type: MP4 File size: 335.66MB Resolution: *px |
