Four, Three times – Martina Wolf

In the four video works in this exhibition, very simple, everyday processes are staged as still lifes: the play of light and shadow from a window above a table with four lemons, the leaves of a grapevine moving in the wind in the summer sunlight, the light in the gaps between a window blind, set in motion by a rotating, reflective cardboard disc and gliding across the screen, and three flickering fluorescent tubes that repeatedly illuminate an apple.

In all four works, time plays a central role and becomes visible in stillness, movement, variation, change, and duration.

The pictorial space of the motifs corresponds to the exhibition venue, the space of a shop window in the city center of Osaka. The view invites passers-by to pause briefly and also to linger and look longer.

The idea of repetition is expressed in the special form of presentation: the same video is repeated on three monitors arranged side by side. However, the monitors do not show the same thing. Different starting points are chosen in the sequences. Either a preview is generated or what has already happened is repeated. The tripled view creates a play of differences. The temporally offset movements relate to each other, creating a visible interaction beyond the boundaries of the technical devices and challenging the viewer's attention and memory.