Residential Complex Algiers

Algiers / Algeria Photography Places / Photo

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In the process of research certain leads directed me to a larg­e residential complex not far from the centre of Algiers. During the 1960s, the prominent architect Fernand Pouillon planned
several residential complexes for the French and Algerian population. His projects are remarkable due to their adjustment to the topography, their differentiated design of buildings and open space as well as the integration of traditional African elements into modern architecture. Pouillon’s large residential complexes still exist in our days, among Algiers’ citizens they are considered as much sought after places of residence.

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Residential Complex  Wohnkomplex 
Algiers 2009
Photographs

TABLE

Algiers / Algeria Table / Video Video

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The view is directed vertically at a round red table at a sidewalk café recorded from a balcony of an apartment on the fourth floor in the centre of Algiers. A group of men is sitting around the table conversing. The men just appear in small sections on the periphery. The movements on the margins are in contrast to the motionless centre of the image.

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TABLE  TISCH 
Algiers 2009
Lobby, Commerzbank AG, Head Quarter
Frankfurt am Main 2011
Video Installation / Exhibition View
Digital Video (DV-Cam) / DVD PAL
Mute. 40 min 30 sec. Loop

Residential Complex

Algiers / Algeria Houses / Video Video

In the process of research certain leads directed me to a larg­e residential complex not far from the centre of Algiers. During the 1960s, the prominent architect Fernand Pouillon planned several residential complexes for the French and Algerian population. His projects are remarkable due to their adjustment to the topography, their differentiated design of buildings and open space as well as the integration of traditional African elements into modern architecture. Pouillon’s large residential complexes still exist in our days, among Algiers’ citizens they are considered as much sought after places of residence.

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Playing Field

Moscow / Russia Playing Field / Video Video

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Over the course of one year, this video series (22 parts) shows always the same section: a playing field with a climbing contraption, behind that a school and a residential block, as well as a couple of trees, recorded through a window with a fixed camera. The horizontal pathway together with the vertical trees and the left window frame form a raster. The movement of the window pane causes the reflection to wander, whereby the things move and the people, who at a direct view walk along the pathway, seem to go into the opposite direction and to disappear. Thus, astounding presumptions, synchronisms and repetitions are generated, dependent on the position of the reflecting window wing. The video sequences start and end with the images of the inner surface of the window wing, which upon opening and closing, in a close proximity to the lens, generate a broad black field.

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Красная Линия / Red Line

Moscow / Russia Place / Video Video

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In the Russian language the terms ‘красивый’ (beautiful) and ‘красный’ (red) are related. Yet, in German ‘the colour red’ is often understood as a kind of warning. Furthermore, in both cultures ‘the colour red’ bears a political significance.
The video shows a long panel of red tulle, which has been spread out across a pathway and over a free, snow-covered space. The pedestrians cross the red line without hesitation. The crosswind sculpts the delicate material into calligraphic figures and finally blows it off the image.

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Красная Линия  Red Line  Rote Linie
Moscow 2009
Apple HDV / Quicktime Movie H.264 / 1920×1080 / 25p
Mute. 25 min. Loop

Almaty House

Almaty / Kazakhstan Houses / Video Video

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Das Wohnhaus in Almaty – mit feststehender Kamera durch ein Fenster des gegenüberliegenden Hauses aufgenommen – erscheint sowohl in direkter Sicht als auch in den Spiegelungen der bewegten Fensterflügel des Wohnraums und des davorliegenden Balkons, in denen sich das Haus verschiebt, sodass immer andere Partien der Fassade und sehr unterschiedliche Fenstergestaltungen sichtbar werden.
Die Wohnungen des Plattenbaus sind im Besitz der Bewohner, die ihre Fenster nach eigenen Möglichkeiten gestalten. Daraus ergibt sich eine differenzierte Fenster- und Fassadenstruktur.

ALMATY_house #05  ALMATY_haus #05 
Almaty. Kazakhstan 2008
Digital Video (DV-Cam) / DVD PAL
Mute. 12 min 12 sec. Loop

 

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ALMATY_house #01  ALMATY_haus #01
Almaty. Kazakhstan 2008
Digital Video (DV-Cam) / DVD PAL
Mute. 13 min 52 sec. Loop

 

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ALMATY_house #03  ALMATY_haus #03 
Almaty. Kazakhstan 2008
Digital Video (DV-Cam) / DVD PAL
Mute. 10 min 30 sec. Loop

Half Pipe

Dresden / Germany Video Window / Video

A half pipe is filmed from a high window. The reflection, separated from the direct view by the vertical window frame, seemingly completes the ramp’s shape. Yet, the window reflects the part outside of the image, and the boy on his BMX bike performing looping manoeuvres leads continuously back to the divided image.

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Half Pipe  Halfpipe    
Dresden 2008
Digital Video (DV-Cam) / DVD PAL
Mute. 10 min 30 sec. Loop

YES / NO

Dresden / Germany Video Window / Video

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This series of nine video works has been created in 2008 in Dresden at the former Eastern German state enterprise ROBOTRON, an industrial prefabricated construction of office buildings. The air circulation and the easy manoeuvrability of the window wings set the mirror images of the window panes into a permanent swaying motion.
The nine video sequences feature a similar image build-up: The window frame runs vertically through the image. The window frame separates the direct view towards the opposite building façade from the reflection.
The views are rigidly structured by the windows’ raster of the building. The focal lengths vary. Besides the aspect of moving reflections, the whole video series documents the renovation works on the building: the aged condition of the concrete façade, the scaffolding in front, the covering of the windows, the works on the house and the freshly painted appearance. In one of the windows a skeleton dummy has been placed next to other objects, which are visible in addition to the movement.

 

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JA/NEIN. Ansichten 1, 4
YES/NO. Views 1, 4
Dresden 2008
Digital Video (DV-Cam) / DVD PAL
Mute. Each 7 min. Loop