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Regen kommt und bleibt (Rain comes to stay)

Clara S. Rueprich

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Site-specific video installation, DV-PAL, color/sound, 15 min./loop

Site-specific video installation for the exhibition Anlagenstillstand, Museumswinkel Erlangen/Germany. (The installation was situated in the washroom of a former factory building. In the factory the washing and toilet facilities were only for men.) Upon entering the former bathroom, the visitor sees a woman standing under the shower. Warm water runs over her skin. From time to time she says something, as though talking to herself. In front of the shower, a towel, shower gel and other articles have been hastily set down as if the woman had taken possession of the place as though it were a matter of course. During the exhibition, the washroom is the passageway to the toilet, a public space, where the visitor can wash his / her hands. The installation transforms this public space into a private, almost intimate, zone. The figure of the woman, filmed behind a translucent shower curtain at the same location and projected by a video beamer onto a further shower curtain, appears indistinctly. Both the woman's body and her language are naked. She speaks in unguarded words, spontaneous movements that don't make the effort of becoming a text: Fragments of sentences, strewn among the burbling of the water.

Clara S. Rueprich

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Growth zone (Wachstumszone)

Slide projection, contribution to the competition for a site-specific work for the new exhibition hall of the Academy of Art in Nuremberg . (Winner of the first prize) The architecture of the Academy of Art is characterised by wide, open vistas. Through the open passageways, courtyards and pavilions, whose large window fronts open directly onto the fields and woods, architecture and nature appear closely bound. In contrast, the new exhibition hall is closed off from the exterior…

Virtual view (virtuelle ausblicke. schein der durchschaubarkeit)

Swamp

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