Betty Boehm "Slapp and Und wenn"
AC Institute
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About Slapp and Und wenn:
In my work, videos and films are playing a major role, which vary from short loops to longer narrations, and at the same time refuse to take the shape of a conventional narrative structure.
The merge of the moving images with other media like photography, collage and sound as well as their integration in an installative and sculptural context are characteristic for my artistic approach.
I am interested in the existential self-questioning, in exploring the ambivalence of human’s psyche causing a meshwork of inscrutable relations and inconsistencies. The hence resulting bizarre, tragicomical but also erratic and abysmal encounters are marking central themes, which are also being reflected in relation to cinematic clichés.
In the video loop “Slapp”, you can watch a woman persistently slapping another woman, who apparently is bearing her fate without any reaction. On the contrary, she keeps on quickly grooming herself in order to receive the next slap... Is this raw violence or may it be a game, a ritual, which is being played in silent agreement?
The piece “Und wenn” begins like a fairytale with a young beautiful girl wandering around in the forest, innocently smelling at flowers and watching butterflies.
The situation gets out of hand when a bizarre chimera, a bear with a woman's face, turns up and violently kicks the rapturous girl out of its territory, out of the woods, out of the frame.
It is this weird melange of not only the physical appearance of bear and human, but even more of the absurd humane and yet animalistic behaviour, which arises subtextual questions about relationship, identity
About Betty Boehm:
Betty Boehm was born in 1979 in Reutlingen, Germany. She lives and works in Berlin.
From 2000 to 2008 she studied fine arts in Stuttgart, Germany and San Francisco, USA. During the course of her studies, she gained experience in various artistic disciplines, reaching from drawing, painting and sculpting to video art, acting and experimental sound art.
Over the last years, these different creative disciplines merged into video and film works, which are often part of expansive media installations.
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from November 17, 2011 to December 03, 2011