Human Frames
Curator : Silke Schmickl
KIT—Kunst im Tunnel
11.06.–24.07.2011
Artists : Monira Al-Qadiri, Alice Anderson, Ashish Avikuntak, Ismail Bahri, Sarnath Banerjee, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Chen Qiu-Lin, Choi, David Cotterrell, Pierre Yves Cruaud, Arnaud Delord, Christoph Draeger, Edwin Köken Ergun, Jeanno Gaussi, Matthias Groebel, Hatice Güleryüz, Yuki Hayashi, Barbara Hlali, Taro Izumi, Masayo Kajimura, Katia Kameli, Yuki Kawamura, Sunjha Kim, Romain Kronenberg, Mischa Leinkauf, Isabelle Lévénez, Marylène Negro, Ho Tzu Nyen, O Zhang, Ethem Ozguven, Izabela Plucinska, Triny Prada, Jean-Gabriel Périot, Ezzam Rahman, Johanna Reich, Patricia Reinhart, Masakazu Saito, Larissa Sansour, Saki Satom, Sylvia Schedelbauer, Alexander Schellow, Tejal Shah, Guli Silberstein, Sion Jeong, Chulayarnnon Siriphol, Sookoon Ang, Lionel Soukaz, Steffi Stangl, Kentaro Taki, Victric Thng, Josephine Turalba, Jan Verbeek, Matthias Wermke, Virgil Widrich, Lily Wittenburg, Tony Wu, Yoko-Fukushima
The exhibition Human Frames is dedicated to the human being, the Condition humaine and the various states of mind that accompany man on his journey through life. In the form of ten thematically compiled film programmes with works by contemporary artists and filmmakers from Europe and Asia that concentrate upon themes such as happiness, desire, madness, fanaticism, fear, anger, isolation, melancholy, the exhibition will re-examine and illuminate human existence at the start of the twenty-first century, including the eastern concept mono no aware (‘the pathos of things’) and impermanence.
Human Frames portrays a timeless, universal spectrum of human frames of mind that transcend national, social and cultural affiliations. The films also exemplify a range of stylistic and content-related approaches influenced by various ethical and cinematic traditions, resulting in a series that is particularly diverse and original.
While each programme illustrates its own theme, the other themes are always present.
Human Frames was conceived by Silke Schmickl, head of the Paris-based film production and curatorial label Lowave, and developed in collaboration with guest curators Masayo Kajimura (Germany/Japan), Victric Thng (Singapore), François Michaud and Stéphane Gérard (France). The project is being implemented in partnership with KIT – Kunst im Tunnel in Düsseldorf, The Substation arthouse cinema in Singapore and the Asia-Europe Foundation.