works 2000 - 2009
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Installation view, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Arsenal, woman at entrance
165 x 130 cm (65 x 51 3/16 in)
165 x 130 cm (65 x 51 3/16 in)
Arsenal, projection
(165 x 220 cm65 x 86 5/8 in)
(165 x 220 cm65 x 86 5/8 in)
Arsenal, film on floor
165 x 200 cm (65 x 78 3/4 in)
165 x 200 cm (65 x 78 3/4 in)
Arsenal, woman at counter
121 x 150 cm (47 5/8 x 59 1/16 in)
121 x 150 cm (47 5/8 x 59 1/16 in)
Arsenal, woman with tangled film
121 x 150 cm (47 5/8 x 59 1/16 in)
121 x 150 cm (47 5/8 x 59 1/16 in)
Arsenal, woman with flashlight
121 x 150 cm (47 5/8 x 59 1/16 in)
121 x 150 cm (47 5/8 x 59 1/16 in)
Arsenal, exit with curtain
165 x 130 cm (65 x 51 3/16 in)
165 x 130 cm (65 x 51 3/16 in)
Arsenal, woman with bottles
121 x 150 cm (47 5/8 x 59 1/16 in)
121 x 150 cm (47 5/8 x 59 1/16 in)
Arsenal, film projection window
121 x 150 cm (47 5/8 x 59 1/16 in)
121 x 150 cm (47 5/8 x 59 1/16 in)
Installation view, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Installation view, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Arsenal 2000
9 C-Print Photographs, various sizes
Permanent Collection Sammlung Verbund, Vienna;
Israel Museum; Burger Collection, Zürich/Hong Kong, et al.
Synopsis
The nine images which make up the series, Arsenal, were shot on location in the old Arsenal movie theatre in Berlin, in the last weeks before it closed. When we began working on location, we recalled the female ticket taker waiting outside the movie theatre, in Edward Hopper’s painting, New York Movie.
In Arsenal, the movie theatre is portrayed as a vacated space, one in which the female character operates all of the mechanisms of the house herself and whose solitary presence from room to room slips between proprietor, janitor, projectionist, movie actress, concession worker and audience.