Installation view: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Die Umarmung
(The embrace)
2003, Two-channel-videoinstallation, 1:20, 2 videobeamers, 2 DVD-players,
2 screens, 5.1 Dolby Surround speakers, synchronizer
Concept and direction: Christian Niccoli
Assistent: Pietro Mele
Cast: Cecile Engelen, Panagiotis Gliatas
Description:
A young couple is sitting on a bench in a park. The scene has been photographed
from two perspectives, in order that the observer, entering the space, catches
sight of two different but identical perspectives of the same subject. Despite
the physical closeness and the almost idyllic setting; although everything
is perfect or maybe exactly because of that, both youngsters reaches unexpectedly
for a remote control and switches off the other.
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