LandE scape
Christin Bolewski
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
topics in my work and therefore also of course foreign nature and environments are important in my work. I also work a lot with cinematic essay and travelogue. I wanted to figure out what specifically interests me so much in travelling and I have been reading a lot of recent research from psychologists and sociologists about travelling and found there an explanation for what I have been doing intuitively for a long time. It’ s been said that travel broadens peoples’ minds by giving them the opportunity to see how others live or how things are different which also includes nature and other environments. Authenticity emerges as a seemingly allpowerful desire in people, particularly in tourists, to see life‘ as it is really lived’ somewhere else. Tourists seek authenticity in other lands as a means, among other things, of gaining insights into their own lives. Within the‘ other’ as a difference I can understand what is myself. Here we find similar ideas to Francois Jullien’ s concept of the‘ detour’.
Another interesting project of yours that has particularly impressed us and on which we would like to spend some words is entitled Still life in motion: it is an arts project that connects the tradition of painting with the moving image to create an object of contemporary video art. In particular, we have found really stimulating the way you have incorporated the elusive notion of time into the apparent staticity of a painting, providing the viewers with an intense experience of real-time. Please tell us something about the role of time in your approach.
Still life in motion likewise as mountainwater-painting and Shizen? Natural is a video painting and one of the most interesting questions it poses is, how time is performed in these video paintings. Still life in motion is also a highly metaphorical piece referencing the tradition of still life painting and reinterpreting it via digital technology. I chose this content because the absence of the dimension of time seems to be particularly evident in painting and even more in an arrangement of still objects. Still life is a traditional theme in the history of fine art practice. It can be a
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