Angela Detanico Rafael Lain

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«5 Times 10 Steps»

Working within the interstices of fine art and graphic design, in addition to possessing a strong collaborative drive, Detanico & Lain have developed a practice based on the playful displacement of meaning. They do this via the language of the information age, but their wit allows them to avoid the sole reliance on the complexity of technological means. Instead they make use of simple procedures in order to produce powerful visual poetics. In their interweaving of form and content, which strongly relies on language, they evoke the legacy of concrete art. However, their poetic approach owes nothing to nostalgia as it draws on irony and irreverence, while the complexity of issues that it evokes relate undoubtedly to our contemporary world…

Das Video präsentiert eine besondere Art der Zeit- und Raumerfahrung im Flachland des Mekong-Deltas. Die Zeit scheint zerdehnt in der horizontalen Landschaft, während die Ufer schnell vorüber ziehen. Zwischen Zeitlupe und Hochgeschwindigkeit gefangen, wird man doch durch die Geräusche, die von den Ufern herüber kommen, in der Gegenwart festgehalten…