Family Portraits
2012, Single-Channel Video Installation (HD) 2:00 Hours, silent
Exhibition view: Kunstverein Buchholz in der Nordheide, 2019
Exhibition view: Museum Mönchehaus Goslar, 2015
Four young adults sit around a family kitchen table: the artist and her siblings. They consume three classical German meals arranged on the table in front of them with their look focused on the camera. Images of the four in the given situation are recorded with a video camera portraying each individual separately. Circulating around the table clock-wise, the four are shown again and again, until they have each finished their dishes. As they continue eating whatever it is they are given, they lose control over what they are entering in their bodies as their gaze remains focused on the lense.
The work creates an intense eye contact between the viewer and the portrayed.
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