Elena Kristofor, Laura Sperl
masc foundation
as part of the Rotlicht Festival
2021
The disorientation of sensory perception and the exploration of perspectives are the focal points of Elena Kristofor and Laura Sperl’s collaboration. For their next major project, which combines performance, video, photography, and installation, the artists venture into the forest, bringing the fog with them.
Both the fog and the forest are two remarkable spaces that fascinate the two artists. The fog creeps. It attacks the skin and numbs the body. It blinds us. When we are in the fog, we lose all sense of orientation. It makes distances, dimensions, and identities disappear. (Serres)
The forest is a space that is difficult to categorize. It seems endless. Yet it obscures the view. It possesses a spatiality in which there is no middle ground. Perhaps there isn’t even a foreground there. There is only the forest. It is a body through which one can pass. In which one can move. One finds oneself within a substance. Within a matter. In the forest.
The artists’ intention is to intertwine these two spaces and, on the one hand, to experience them physically and through movement, and, furthermore, to make them accessible to viewers through photography.
Mit der Nebelmaschine im Wald, Aliza Peisker, Bohema, 2021 (DE)
