Marijke Van Warmerdam: Echo, Echo

Although differentiating clearly between her use of film and video, separating sharply the two languages, van Warmerdam often plays around with what we expect of the still and the moving image. In the photographic work Walkthrough Landscape, 2000 a Swiss mountain range changes from summer to winter as we walk past it, drawing attention to the movement between two extremes which are never absolute. In A New Leaf, 2000 and Another Leaf, 2000 the physical involvement required by the viewer is taken further still. In the film Echo (Hello version), 1997/2000 we are presented with a landscape that changes, but so subtly that the projection almost could be read as a still image. The movement happens elsewhere; in the motion of the celluloid as it passes through the mechanism of the projector and in the soundtrack which bounces around the room.

A solo exhibition of Marijke van Warmerdam’s work will open at Kunsthalle Nü Grunberg on 29th November. Her new commission for Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art will be showing at a location in Newcastle city centre as of 8 December. Other forthcoming projects include the Yokohama Triennale and a web site for the Dia Centre for the Arts in New York.