Exhibitors
Johanna Domke (*1978) is working with the time aspect of the moving image, regarding it both as a technical entity as well as a social construct. In often casual settings she shapes different time layers within a scenery.
A sunset takes 7 minutes is set up on the roof of a residential building in Berlin. The city is dipped in the last rays of sun and one can see a wide panorama of the city landscape. A small assemblage of young people is gathered up here and sits together in smaller groups on trashed garden furniture or rugs. They are watching the setting sun, while chatting and drinking. The camera moves slowly, passing by the different groups grasping a few fragments of their conversations. Some are enthusiastically involved in a discussion while others are calmly talking together. A portable gramophone is spinning the soundtrack to the scene. The camera moves on overlooking the city landscape and starts, after it finished a 360° turn, where it began its round. The whole scene repeats itself, the camera catches up the same bits of conversation and the movements of the people remain the same. The only thing changing is the setting sun and the slowly disappearing sunlight on the people's faces. It looks like the group is trapped in a moment of time, while everything else is moving onwards.
 Johanna Domke, “A sunset takes 7 minutes”, 2005, Video |