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  • Ovid - video
    Video installation Series 'Bags' A text from the sixth book of Metamorphoses runs from the foreground to the background on a three-dimensional "screen" consisting of 39 shopping bags. The tale of the weaving contest between Pallas Athena and
  • Floating Signs II -
    Three-part light installation Series 'Mirrors of the Unseen (MotU)' 'Floating Signs 2' features three light sticks, each consisting of a vertical bar of white flickering LEDs. For the viewer, the words and images seem to emerge from the bars,
  • Positionen - video
    PositionenArtist: Ruth SchnellComment:
  • Video sculpture A monitor is hung up with rubber bands and steel spirals, and thus installed as a punching ball in the exhibition space. A video shows the world globe seen from orbit. The globe rotates and passes through a process of resolution and
  • Search -
    Video installation Series 'Bags' Ten bags, stacked with their opening facing forward, form a free-standing sculpture. The flicker of a television picture is projected onto the front, and the image of the abstract television image continues into the
  • Sprache Sehen -
    Computer-controlled interactive light installation Polytechnic school Bregenz (AT), extension Baumschlager/Eberle, competition, realization 1996–8 [English title, 'Seeing Language'] In each of the three staircases of the new building of the HTL
  • Stairs -
    Video installation Series 'Bags' 24 bags are arranged in 4 horizontal rows, forming a staircase. From a frontal view, a rectangular spatial body is created by the identical shape of the bags (white rectangular form, handles). This object is leaning
  • Tattoo -
    Video installation Series 'Bags' A variable number of paper bags form a rosette shape on the floor. From the top, pictures of tattoo motifs are projected onto the bags. The projection body seemingly becomes the surface of a human body.
  • The Space Between 1 and 2Artist: Ruth SchnellComment:
  • Dynamic projection The dynamic image projection 'Topography of Movement' features two oversized hands in motion. They seem to be feeling out their environment, gliding or swiping over the surface upon which they rest. The two cropped projections