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Emmanuelle Antille |
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Radiant Spirits und Angels Camp - Into the Purple Circle
June 21, - October 2, 2004 Sammlung Goetz is opening its new, enlarged exhibition space with the expansive, multiple screen video installations Radiant Spirits and Angels Camp - Into the Purple Circle from the Swiss artist Emmanuelle Antille. In 2003, Emmanuelle Antille was the first female artist invited to represent her country in the Swiss Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. There she presented the new four-part video installation Angels Camp - Into the Purple Circle(2003). As in Radiant Spirits (2000), in which she additionally uses video glasses and a monitor, on several screens the artist leads the viewer astray into her suggestive dream worlds. She is not only the author, but also the director – she writes the scripts and monitors the production in all phases and areas. Needle sharp surroundings come into being – perhaps they move us to the brink of our own illusions, simultaneously lulling us to sleep and scaring us. It is important for Emmanuelle Antille to generate real feelings. She has found the possibility in video. As with music and the cinema, according to the artist, there is the possibility to directly experience a feeling – “so strongly that one trembles all over”. Radiant Spirits, 2000 Following Sigmund Freud´s concept, the translation of dream images into the visible "language of our perception"1 – has occupied human beings since time immemorial and appears to have finally found a medium allowing for a visual approach, in photography and film. One frequent problem in presentation is the transition from real images to dream images. Emmanuelle Antille´s five-part video installation Radiant Spirits can be seen as an attempt to make dream images visual and tangible. The work will be projected in a U-formed space. In front of this a monitor is positioned on a plinth on which the prologue to this piece is shown: The camera films the illuminated long and empty corridors of an elegant old Grand Hotel with galleries, staircases and large halls in a static perspective and the pictures are set out in a row by hard cuts. It is here, where the most diverse of people, destinies and passions come together in a limited anonymous space without becoming acquainted with one another that there is space for our own projections. This provides Antille a surface on which she presents the guests as invisible spirits that nevertheless leave behind them shadows on the wall as they walk through the hotel. Angels Camp - Into the Purple Circle, 2003 The video installation Into the Purple Circle, with its four free-hanging screens and light boxes is a self-contained component of a group of works with the collective title Angels Camp. This ensemble is based on a fictitious story and comprises an 80-minute film, sound and video installations, photographs, objects, music and a novel. As always, Emmanuelle Antille was involved in every aspect of the making of the work as author, director, producer and even actor. She has compared the individual components in Angels Camp to a family, whose members are both independent and closely connected, complementing each other and helping each other to create their own story. Angels Camp was presented in its entirety in the Swiss Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2003. © Stephan Urbaschek 2004 Translation: Fiona Elliot
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| Photo Credits: 1,2,4 & 5) SLG (Artist) 3) Wilfried Petzi, Munich © Goetz Collection, Authors and Artists |
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