Park

In the video work Park the artist, as in many of his early videos, provokes the spectator to a higher level of focus. Before us is a park in the evening in the city of Stuttgart – at first glance, everything is as in life: a beautiful theater building on the shore of a lake, it’s warm, birds are singing, people are walking, riding bikes, the smoothness of the water is gently rippling. But gradually we notice that something transient and strange is happening. The reflections of the people in the water don’t move like the people: sometimes they are slower, sometimes they overtake their masters. Some of the statues on the roof of the theater, from time to time, come to life and move slowly, and on the facade of the building you can see the same ripples that are moving across the water. And above all these, in the contours of a large tree, we can make out the silhouette of the artist’s face. All of these artefacts balance on the level of an optical illusion, being barely distinguishable, and they are aimed at arousing the spectator’s attention.