I Cant Remember Why I’m Here (waiting for the next move)
Are they terrorists waiting to kidnap the daughter of some billionare?
Flash Art, 2001
He
was hidden behind a marblepilar and was watching the nearby staircase.
By no means should he be spotted. Lena Séraphins large scale posters
are like filmstills from thrillers. The Finnish artist captures
situations when people want to hide for a split second. People that are
on the run, from others but maybe also from themselves. The motive
remains open.
Münchner kultur, 2002
When image becomes transmission
I
Cant Remember Why I’m Here (waiting for the next move) is an on-going
series of life-size photographic work. The series begun in 2000 is
printed to fit into each location by measure and is installed on the
wall by gluing. Posters are approximately 220 cm x 160cm.
The
singular models have multiple roles. They impose a sense of control and
get close to being agents monitoring a target. But, the images also
convey a loss of orientation and an ambiguous presence. The intention
span cut next to nothing expose a moment, literally a split second,
without direction or control.
Exposed on walls in spaces
determined for entrances and exits the series interferes with public
space. The posters are inconclusive and dispersed by loops, in each
exhibition venue a new piece is photographed and a shift between
fiction, documentary and art work is released. The perception of the
work is close to visual orientation in cityspace as the series is
installed without being centre staged and is seen with a more
peripheral vision, being passed by in hallways and staircases by
viewers in motion.
Each photograph shows a singular person in
natural size, carrying negotiable roles for either exposure or
closure.The person is controlling space and simultaneously hiding from
a forthcoming contact. Each scene is staged in public spaces turning
architecture into set design. Photographed in locations as La Tourette
in Arbresle, designed by Le Corbusier in 1960, the Alexanderplatz
underground station in Berlin constructed between1950-70, The Round
House by Kaija and Heikki Sirén in Helsinki from 1968 and Kiasma in
Helsinki, designed by Steven Holl in 1993. The addition of a large
scale photograph based on architecture to the exhibition venue gives a
quality of trompe l´oieul.
Searchwords: filmstill, thriller, architecture, cityspace
About Lena Séraphin
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