Wanda 2015

Videoinstallation, 3:15 Min., Loop

Super 8 film digitized, projected on Japanese paper, 15 sheets each 245 x 40 cm, detail from the film.
… The ticking of the clock – the passing of time – can thus also be the stapling of a film projector. Almost wistfully, we listen to the noisy rattling – now seemingly antiquated in digital soundlessness – of the old Super 8 camera with which Barbara Karsch-Chaïeb filmed the sheets created around the aforementioned Wanda, and whose mutual superimpositions are now projected onto white sheets suspended from the ceiling. The memory of a foreign person is not our own memory; it is enraptured because it is not tangible and yet – as a fundamental emotion connecting people all over the world – it can be felt. And even the analog technologies themselves seem to us to be enraptured, whose media (and thus their contents) can no longer be played for lack of devices, but whose materiality, haptics, sound or smell are capable of eliciting melancholically enriched, synaesthetic raptures (bluer than velvet and all other fabrics …) from us, even (and especially) they are memories of a fleeting time.
Excerpt from the opening speech by Clemens Ottnad, January 8, 2016, ZERO Arts Gallery Stuttgart