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  • All Targets DefinedArtist: Ruth SchnellComment:
  • Light objects Series 'Mirrors of the Unseen (MotU)' The term "to see" is often used in common speech synonymously with "to understand" or "to grasp". The phrase ,"If I'm seeing this correctly," is used to signify understanding in consensus with
  • 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
  • Shirt -
    Video installation A men's shirt is placed on a hanger in front of a wall. The shirt is open and reveals the inside of the back panel, where a vertical crack is projected. The crack appears to blow easily in the wind. The crack allows visual
  • 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