A static black background; bright, rhythmically sliding planes – TURRET begins in an abstract clarity that suggests a digital origin. The gradually expanding gaze of the camera increasingly dissolves the visual composition’s planarity and reveals details, which refer to an aged, inhomogeneous material arrangement.
Kämmerer’s body of filmic works provides an indication on the construction of the tilted, almost two-dimensional perspective – his preference for spatial installations and their conserving compaction on 35mm film. Therefore the capturing of a sculpture made from window casements turns into a study about our categorizing understanding of pictures and the stereotyping assumption, that every contemporary system, that we do not understand, must be digital.
Björn Kämmerer, born in 1977, lives and works in Vienna.
www.bjoernkaemmerer.com

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

Curated by Robert Seidel  www.robertseidel.com