2025 | Full HD Video, duration: 22:50 min.
Exhibition view open studio BBK Brandenburg, Libken e.V., 2025. Photo: Sophie Innmann, © 2025 VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.

Another video work I created during the residency “into the fields” in Libken is the site-specific video work 20250410-1831-1854-LibkenC5, which deals with the building of Libken and its embedding in the landscape, its history and that of its inhabitants. It is a panel house from 1965, in which workers from the local agricultural production cooperative (LPG) lived during the GDR era. Since this house has been standing, the sun has shone into the kitchens and bathrooms every morning and into the living rooms and bedrooms on the opposite side every evening. Everyone who has ever lived in this house has seen something similar like this: the wandering sunlight, which projects a moving painting of light and shadow onto the wall with window frames and trees in front of the house. Though this connects all the people over decades, it also separates them as each sunset is unique, they never saw the same. Also it is a kind of lonely event as people were all in different rooms, walls between them. As in the allegory of the cave you watch the shadows and lights of the sunset disappear in a projection of the real sunset outside on your inner wall. Here you could watch the shadow theater from April 10, 2025, 18:31 to 18:54.

Here you can watch a short summary:

My thanks go to the operators and organizers of Libken and the residency, who laid the foundations for this intensive time with their energy, commitment and expertise, as well as to my flatmate and fellow artists in Libken for this wonderful, unforgettable and unique time.