Table Stories (Tischgeschichten) - 2002
Video installation / Loop 10' / DVD
Video projector, DVD player, audio amplifier, 2 loudspeaker boxes, bench
Two women and two men are seated at a table. They eat their soup in silence. At the table’s edge the video image is divided in half by a black stripe: into the world above the table and the other below it. The general mood is reserved, the behavior stiff, and the few spoken words manipulative. The action – taking the people with it – shifts more and more below the table, and with this plunge into the depths of the muddled constellation, the inner rigidity gives way to a graceful sensuality.