Karin Holmer
Growing from an idea of building an empathy machine, this work explores our capacity to connect both with ourselves and the filmic image. We travel in the tension between us and the other and between the feeling of safety and a dark movement.
'The opening of a door. Activated by the inner voice of the reader. I want it to linger and take form in the mind. Something to cling to.'
In which one sees the door ajar rather than open. The gentility of the chemical photograph, leans into a sense of violence: an image is replaced by another. There are many ways to tell a story. Light is divided into patches of darkness. What unfurls within the mind is not the object itself, but it is a shadow, a specter, its luminous imprint: a vanished echo. A narrative surface of immaterial matter.
Exhibited works, degree exhibition
Amygdala Response Stimulator
2021
Installation with 16mm film loop and sound shower
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