Video Loop with Sound
5:20 min
Film Stills from Encounters in the Realm of the Horses
Installation view, HERE TO STAY, 2022, Städtischen Galerie Stapflehus, Weil am Rhein (GE)
Image Credits: Bettina Matthiessen
The video work 'Encounters in the Realm of the Horses' reflects the vivid, dreamlike, and almost tangible literary world of the Swiss writer Cécile Ines Loos. The work 'Hinter dem Mond' from 1942 serves as a source of inspiration, portraying the fantastical and eerie world of a young orphan girl who envisions horses ruling the world. The imagery-rich language opens up almost palpable, albeit occasionally bewildering, realms of imagination. Thanks to its fragmented style, Loos provides room for personal associations, granting the readers an emancipatory role. The video work responds to this fragmented quality in its style. The recurring themes in the works of Cecile Ines Loos, which are also present in the video work, include the lost childhood and the role of motherhood - even without having one's own child present or without being the biological mother. In this work, which employs the Stop-Motion Collage technique, a fusion of the surreal and the everyday occurs. The disquiet is amplified by the plaintive sounds of a young child and a domestic setting.
Video Loop with Sound
5:20 min
The video work 'Encounters in the Realm of the Horses' reflects the vivid, dreamlike, and almost tangible literary world of the Swiss writer Cécile Ines Loos. The work 'Hinter dem Mond' from 1942 serves as a source of inspiration, portraying the fantastical and eerie world of a young orphan girl who envisions horses ruling the world. The imagery-rich language opens up almost palpable, albeit occasionally bewildering, realms of imagination. Thanks to its fragmented style, Loos provides room for personal associations, granting the readers an emancipatory role. The video work responds to this fragmented quality in its style. The recurring themes in the works of Cecile Ines Loos, which are also present in the video work, include the lost childhood and the role of motherhood - even without having one's own child present or without being the biological mother. In this work, which employs the Stop-Motion Collage technique, a fusion of the surreal and the everyday occurs. The disquiet is amplified by the plaintive sounds of a young child and a domestic setting.
