Detail of the installation of the work "Floating Food"; red fabric strips hanging from the ceiling can be seen in a dark room as well as a video Still showing young Asian men in traditional work clothes on bicycles on a country road between green fields. Ulrike Ottinger, Sammlung Goetz Munich

Sammlung Goetz BASE 103

Ulrike Ottinger

May 29 – October 6, 2012

„The grotesque helps us to endure the gravity of everyday life.“ (Ulrike Ottinger)

Coinciding with the Paweł Althamer exhibition, the Sammlung Goetz presents the newly-acquired work Floating Food (2011) by German filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger. Floating Food is an audiovisual round-up of the artist’s travels in distant lands and cultures, focusing on two fundamental human needs: food and water.
Ottinger explores cultural phenomena and rituals that may often appear exotic to western eyes, taking us to remote, faraway places that reflect both the beauty and the harshness of human life. Her ethnographic portraits of landscapes and communities frequently possess a fairytale quality that almost imperceptibly blurs the distinction between reality and orchestration.
The 8-channel video installation is complemented by further video works and photographs by Ulrike Ottinger.

Ulrike Ottinger

176 pages, 172 ill., hardcover
German/English
2012, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern
ISBN 978-3-7757-3462-2
€ 25,00

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