Who’re we and what are we doing right here? Ever since Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) based psychoanalysis, we have now been looking out our personal souls for solutions to life’s nice questions.
Psychonaut comes from astronaut and actually means soul-sailor. These voyages lead not out into house however in direction of the infinite expanse inside us. In that spirit artists John Bock (*1965) and Heiner Franzen (*1961) discover the human psyche and its depths of their movies. They draw inspiration from the cinema with its rivers of images, a equipment of dream and delusion typically in contrast with the human thoughts.
The installations “Cowwidnok”, 2015, by Bock and “Twin”, 2009, by Franzen are each within the assortment of the Berlinische Galerie and are on dis- play within the museum for the primary time.
John Bock, Cowwidinok, 2015
John Bock’s movies experiment with a wide range of genres. The artist’s film-based works all the time transport us right into a dream-like or nightmarish parallel universe. Bock shot the fictional “Cowwidinok” throughout his exhibition “Im Modder der Summenmutation” in Bonn in 2013/14. The actors carry out on completely different levels every representing a distinct style, reminiscent of theatre of the absurd, cleaning soap opera, fairy story, thriller and folks play.
The set up contains a big field with a peephole and a projector displaying the motion within the field: an absurd, doll-sized theatre of the world.
A digital camera within the center strikes in a circle filming levels open in direction of the within.
Heiner Franzen, Twin, 2009
Drawings and movies by Heiner Franzen play with our creativeness. For the 2 video installations exhibited right here he attracts on footage from James Cameron’s “Terminator II” (1991) and Stanley Kubrick’s “Shining” (1980). Franzen extracts brief sequences from the broader cinematic context and breaks them down into frames. The pictures are processed, alienated and at last rearranged. A element thus turns into the seed for a brand new movie, puzzling and emotionally unsettling. Franzen’s works perform like an echo chamber of reminiscence. We expertise the reverberations in a wholly new manner. Issues look acquainted, however we have now by no means seen them earlier than.
at Berlinische Galerie
till August 11, 2025
