The theme that links the works is the same – the ambiguity of human relationships and the individual struggle to express one’s feelings and desires in today’s society – while approaches and ways of describing the subject naturally differ.
Annika Larsson of Sweden, born in 1972, looks at the duplicity and the nature - in many ways repugnant - of power, its political, erotic and aesthetic dimension. The protagonists of her videos are men dressed in elegant and formal garments set against a background of hypnotic and repetitive music and a total absence of dialogue.
Markus Schinwald of Austria, born in 1973, creates surreal visions of the fragility of human existence. In his videos, characters that are apparently distant from one another (contortionists, sports people, puppeteers) find themselves together in the sharing of strange rituals. E.S.
2.3.2007 – 1.4.2007
I’M ONLY HUMAN Part B: Annika Larsson + Markus Schinwald
Thessaloniki Centre for Contemporary Art
Lazaristes Monastery, Kolokotroni & Thrakis Str 21, Thessaloniki
http://www.cact.gr
