For years, Ulu Braun has been developing contemporary landscape imagery in the form of exuberant video collages, which the artist himself refers to as ‘video paintings’. Paintings from different eras, 2D and 3D animations, videos, GIF loops and clip art come together. As diverse as the original contexts are, the perspectives and boundaries of the material fragments resonate in different ways towards the imaginary point of view of the observer. Braun’s global collages are cinematic portraits of the Anthropocene in its (visual) inundation, in which the boundaries between reality and fiction become increasingly blurred.

Phantom Horizons

The on-going screening series Phantom Horizons presents digital as well as analogue works that question the paradigm of linear perspective, seeking a new kind of “status perspective” [Bedeutungsperspektive]. The latter was a development of ancient and medieval painting, in which the size of figures is determined by their hierarchical significance. Extending this approach using the methodology of deconstruction and the possibilities of contemporary film creation, the presented works open up multifaceted, unseen horizons.

Curated by Robert Seidel