The Dress (Das Kleid)

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Video, 1999
(DV on S-VHS, 90 sec. Loop, colour, mute) Projected per video beam
Camera/editor: Wolf-Ingo Römer

The film loop shows the abstract image of a white block of plastic concert-hall seating. A woman wearing a flowery summer dress wanders through the rows of seats. Her head cannot be seen. She emerges at various unpredictable points among the seats, gradually fading away into transparency. After a while the strapless dress - without its wearer - can be seen draped over the armrest of one of the chairs. It too then disappears. The woman again begins walking between the rows of seats.

1999 Münster, Hawerkamp Halle
Saarbrücken, Johanneskirche