Look at me

Copyright artist(s) and courtesy argos

Artist(s)

Year

2003

Duration

00:09:40

Installation

Original format

DVCAM

Color

b&w

Color system

NTSC

Availability

Distribution

In the video Look at me, translations take place on different levels. With references to silent film (black-and-white, slightly faltering, silent, text signs, images with rounded edges,...) the work shows age-old elderly people, looking for a confrontation with the spectator in close up. These images are alternated with text signs, dealing with temporariness, disintegration of identity and consciousness, but also on the responsibility towards others. Detachment, the ephemeral and relational interact here, as if they were high tide and low.