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This work consists of three scenes, which have all the characteristics of kitschy picture postcards brought to life: a mountain in close-up turns out, as the camera zooms back, to be a simplistic artefact paper; an Egyptian landscape lit according to the rules by the setting sun, turns out to be 'got up' with nodding pyramids and a sphinx with all the external appearance of a Bavarian stag; a polar bear plods valiantly onward, only to end up on a plate surrounded by twirls of whipped cream. Vedder and Gruber are having a romp with reality. They conjure it up momentary through, in particular, the use of subtle lighting only to distort it speedily into a playful variant of itself. The artist herself underlines the need not to take this manipulation too seriously, by appearing on the screen at the end of each scene in a ludicrous costume. The kitschy plinky-plonk music corresponds perfectly to the images.
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Rob Perrée
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Scenario and music: Bettina Gruber, Camera: Maria Vedder, Lights, editing and set design: Bettina Gruber, Maria Vedder
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