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CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

April 1 - May 4, 2008

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Passengers: 1.8 Ulla von Brandenburg
After studying set design and the visual arts, the German-born, Paris-based artist Ulla von Brandenburg embarked on an artistic career that combines two fields in a highly distinctive way. Her prolific practice includes drawing, video, film, installation, wall painting, and performance to create complex, multilayered narratives. Her works often relate to turn-of-the-century occultism, expressionist theater, magic, the circus, and pre-Freudian psychoanalysis—a world between reality and artifice. Best known is her series of tableaux vivants shot on Super-8 film showing a seemingly motionless arrangement of people who hold their precise positions for the entire duration of one roll of film. Only the rare blink of an eye or gust of wind on a curtain reveal that we are watching a film, and not a still image. The cast usually consists of the artist's friends, many of whom are artists themselves and von Brandenburg's frequent collaborators, thereby creating additional layers of reference and meaning.