The installation consists of two video projections shown low in the corner of a room onto different walls. A woman is central in one of the images, in the other a man. The woman is obviously in a kitchen, the man in a less clearly defined space. They are having a row. It's not just the accUSAtions that fly back and forth, but the milk and a saucepan too. Every now and then one of the figures appears in the other space to deliver a blow or to be physical in some other way.
The set-up of the projections is such that the visitor seems to be in the space with the fighting couple, whereby he becomes a witness to what happens but without being able to intervene. He is invited rather to take sides in this conventional expressive squabbling. The everyday nature of the image and text gives the actors an anonymity. Their performance contains elements of amateur theatricals, slapstick and realism. And thus a melodrama arises, without becoming a soap.
The strict formal directing creates a paradox with the banality of the story.
In all the images the figure becomes strictly isolated.
The throwing and slinging into the other space amplifies that isolation.
The set-up of the video projections in a corner creates an additional tension with the visitor. Present and yet excluded is he.
And most ironically, the rigorous entanglement of form and content gives this work a saddening under tone; that of isolation.
– Dorine Mignot
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2 video players, 2 LCD projectors, 1 sync starter
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