M+M
24 Jan - 03 May 2015
M+M
7 Tage
24 January – 3 May 2015
Curator: Kevin Muhlen
For a few years, M+M (Martin de Mattia and Marc Weis) have been developing a work of art focused on the media and their mechanisms, not only analysing modes of communication but also the manner in which these are perceived and "consumed" in our society of today. To strengthen their message, the artists adopt a visual, formal language which is very close to their subject and they don't shy away from producing videos in an almost cinematographic manner. The images thus have a quality which can be immediately identified with this medium which is then reworked and manipulated by the artists. In their video installations, fiction mixes with reality in the scenarios which refuse a narrative linearity. The characters assume different roles within the same scene, all wrapped in a visual loop which scrambles the timelines to conceive hypnotic compositions where, little by little, the action dissolves.
The video project by M+M entitled 7 Tage (begun in 2009), is made up of seven videos in double projection. Each one corresponds to a specific day of the week. The artists take up the principle outlined in their previous works of art, namely the decomposition of the narration in isolated scenes of their looped screening. Every "day" takes an emblematic scene from a popular film, which is then reinterpreted by the artists, who inverse certain parameters, tampering with your viewing, and opening it up to new interpretations. The display device projects the video in a triple loop, meaning the original scene, the starting point for each film, disappears and gradually transforms into a new "story" which is fragmented and put together again by the viewer. The double projection is an active participant in the process, as your gaze continuously swings between the two images. Finally, the dialogue between the two almost identical scenes is dominant in the confrontation between the original and the remake.
7 Tage
24 January – 3 May 2015
Curator: Kevin Muhlen
For a few years, M+M (Martin de Mattia and Marc Weis) have been developing a work of art focused on the media and their mechanisms, not only analysing modes of communication but also the manner in which these are perceived and "consumed" in our society of today. To strengthen their message, the artists adopt a visual, formal language which is very close to their subject and they don't shy away from producing videos in an almost cinematographic manner. The images thus have a quality which can be immediately identified with this medium which is then reworked and manipulated by the artists. In their video installations, fiction mixes with reality in the scenarios which refuse a narrative linearity. The characters assume different roles within the same scene, all wrapped in a visual loop which scrambles the timelines to conceive hypnotic compositions where, little by little, the action dissolves.
The video project by M+M entitled 7 Tage (begun in 2009), is made up of seven videos in double projection. Each one corresponds to a specific day of the week. The artists take up the principle outlined in their previous works of art, namely the decomposition of the narration in isolated scenes of their looped screening. Every "day" takes an emblematic scene from a popular film, which is then reinterpreted by the artists, who inverse certain parameters, tampering with your viewing, and opening it up to new interpretations. The display device projects the video in a triple loop, meaning the original scene, the starting point for each film, disappears and gradually transforms into a new "story" which is fragmented and put together again by the viewer. The double projection is an active participant in the process, as your gaze continuously swings between the two images. Finally, the dialogue between the two almost identical scenes is dominant in the confrontation between the original and the remake.