GLASHAUS.

The video-installation GLASHAUS consists of nine video-loops of various size and format, that are projected simultaneously.
All of the single videos are picturing one scene in the sense that the location as well as the framing remains the same.
A situation is shown, including a certain motion, but there is no result, the action only takes place, and keeps to happen as if a moment of time was stretched to infinity.
Since the videos are edited in the way that it is impossible to recognize at what point a repetition starts, the single projections as well as the whole installation do not have a certain duration.
Hereby the installation is quite similar to the way a photographic exhibition could be constructed. As a whole, the nine loops are forming a three-dimensional image-space. Relations amongst them are established -unlike the chronological editing of a movie- via location, giving the viewer the opportunity to construct the whole by moving freely in the space, creating his/her own order.

The look at the installation is not a passive one, it becomes positioning. Most articulate in two portraits, that take a key role within the installation. Since they are presented facing each other, the viewer takes a place: he is not only looking but also looked at, and by looking he is locating himself as the counterpart of the portrait he is observing, taking the place and perspective of the other one.
The work approaches the self and the other. Self-perception and consciousness of being perceived by another are the basis for an interpersonal positioning. The self is constituted by -as well as against- the other, it needs the outside view as much as the demarcation, in which the other stays present as reference point and antipode.
The inside and outside are a theme that leads through the installation. They are a reappearing metaphor of spaces we either have access and insight to, or which remain hidden and apart from us.