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| Jens Kull | |
Jens Kull was born in Basel, Switzerland in 1975. After studies of ethnology and philosophy he left his hometown at the age of 22 to live in Mexico City where he studied photography and developed a particular way of observing urban space. |
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| About the Artist | |
With sequenced photography, video compositing and video installation, Jens Kull plays with new and well-established technologies aiming at disclosing different angles of realities and possibilities, shifted in time and space. |
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Numb Pulse
2008 |
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| Numb Pulse
Mankind's beating heart, an hommage to achievement
A rectangular screen lodged in the ceiling of a darkened room, showing a piece of sky like a rooflight, not making it apparent, if it's a screen or just a window at first. The sound of jets fades in and a plane, high above, crosses the patch of sky. A second plane appears and then a third, until the whole screen is filled with planes, some flying low, some high, and the deafening noise of over fourty jets fills the room, until it is hardly bearable anymore, then the whole construction of movement and sound collapses as all planes exit the screen and leave an empty sky. The loop starts again.
Dozens of planes cross the urban sky each day, and every one of them can be seen and heard. However, we usually don't do so anymore because we filter the noise as much as the vision, we have made ourselves numb. All the more, if we happen to see one of these planes, we tend to regard them as a nuisance.
Planes are symbols for human achievement, of the ability to overcome distance and space, and they stand for the freedom of mankind and the fulfilment of the ever-present dream to fly. And they are perfectly designed and optimized machines, unflawed in form and function, a technological adornment and at the same time a reference point on the otherwise endless surface which is the sky, providing our consciousness with a boundary between the earthly and the heavenly, a reminder of the finiteness of the human space.
Numb Pulse brings this symbol back to consciousness. We are forced to look at it closer than we are used to. It brings back memories of a time when we still looked in awe at the wonders of human technology. At the same time, they form the only reference in the rectangular skylight, preventing us from losing track in the uniform blue flat.
Like in a time-lapse, Jens Kull unites the air traffic of a whole day to a single, deafening and stunning moment when we see all these planes which cross above our head during the course of a day. The skylight is literally darkened with planes, and the moment of climax evokes a peculiar mixture of awe and fright, of the beauty and in the meantime of the fright of technology.
In Numb Pulse, Jens Kull again plays a trick on time and our perception of it. And with the ever-increasing and decreasing level of noise, he creates a pulse, referring to what makes mankind's body run, an hommage to technology as the beating heart of society. In the same time, he confronts us with the fact that we numb ourselves against the effects and side-effects of human progress because our minds are simply unable to keep up the pace.
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Technique:
HDVD roof projection
Dimensions:
variable, minimum 3m 50 large
Edition:
3 commercial copies and
3 author’s copies.
30 flipbooks, numbered and signed |
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| Education and biography | |
| Private and public contemporary art collections such as Colección FEMSA and the Jumex collection in Mexico have purchased his works. In 2004 he received the INTERNATIONALER/MEDIEN /KUNST/PREIS in Karlsruhe and his work was purchased by the Monterrey Biennale FEMSA in 2007. His works have been exhibited in Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, France, Czech Republic, Spain, Italy, Russia, Chile, Brazil and Mexico. Currently he is one of few contemporary artists of Mexico's oldest gallery, the "Gallery of Mexican Art - GAM", founded by Ines Amor and Diego Rivera in 1936, opening paths to new media and video |
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