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Vita / Lebenslauf:
My work revolves around the idea that our society is in every aspect influenced by film. Ever since it became an omnipresent force in society people have started to measure their lives against their cinematic heroes. The aesthetic influences are innumerable and can be viewed in our desires for fashion, decoration and even our preferences in (sexual) relationships. In a way we believe what we see in the movies and perceive it as reality, even if we are conscious of the fact that it is ‘just a film’. Cinema is a strange being amongst the arts. As Susan Sontag says in A Note on Novels and Films: "Cinema is a kind of pan-art. It can use, incorporate, engulf virtually any other art: the novel, poetry, theatre, painting, sculpture, dance, music, architecture. Unlike opera, which is a (virtually) frozen art form, the cinema is and has been a fruitfully conservative medium of ideas and styles of emotion." In my work I make use of cinematic imagery because I feel it is and has been very important to me. The cinema has been a place where I have learned about life as a child. It is here that I’ve learned what good relationships are supposed to be, how you should behave in certain situations and what kind of people I should admire. Whether is this is a good thing or a bad thing remains to be seen. Cinema has created my desire, or as Slavoj Zizek says in Looking Awry: “It is only through fantasy that the subject is constituted as desiring: through fantasy, we learn how to desire.” |
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