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    • Installation view: Oil – Beauty and Horror in the Petrol Age, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg

    Installation view: Oil – Beauty and Horror in the Petrol Age, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg

    Installation view: Oil – Beauty and Horror in the Petrol Age, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg

    Installation view: Oil – Beauty and Horror in the Petrol Age, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg

    Installation view: Oil – Beauty and Horror in the Petrol Age, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg

    Crude
    10-channel video installation
    10 LCD monitors, 19"
    individual loops vary in length
    2021
    Crude, i.e. oil [n], raw [adj]. Found, awkward and largely unedited camera footage: ten cinematic readymades form a fragmentary ensemble of the petroleum age with its visions, achievements and perils.
    commissioned by
    Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg

    footage from the following collections:
    Eye Film Institute Netherlands,
    The Center for Home Movies,
    Internet Archive, Cal Fire Museum,
    California State Archives,
    National Archives, Prelinger Archives
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    Fountain, 2021