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BARBARA HAMMANN: LEJ DA SEGL – ÜBER ZWEI JAHRE EINE LANDSCHAFT
since January 2012
Barbara Hammann *1945
Lej da Segl – über zwei Jahre eine Landschaft (2006/07), 2010
video projection, duration: 5 54’ 16’’,
Artist`s loan
Sils-Maria in the Engadin is a place where artists and intellectuals have long sought respite. The luxury hotel Waldhaus overlooking the village and lake has welcomed celebrities like Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, Clara Haskil, Max Liebermann and Gerhard Richter. In the nearby valley Val Bever David Claerbout shot his work "Riverside". The hotel’s static webcam has captured what makes this place so attractive and what is reflected in a view across Lake Sils, locally known as Lej da Segl. For her video-projection capturing changing times of day and weather conditions artist Barbara Hammann selected webcam images from 2006/07.
The webcam was set at a ten-minute interval which enabled Hammann, as she phrased it, “to experience changes in nature as I would not have been able to perceive them in the flow of time.” Whereas Claerbout uses the two parallel plots of his film to emphasize the here and now, Hammann aims to increase the perception of change in the self as well as in the surroundings: “How many images can we recollect? Every second we are moving in a different realm yet we believe in the unchangeability in things and nature”. Both artists employ footage of the same European landscape in order to come to entirely different artistic statements about the rapport between time and space and man’s relation to both.
Artist Barbara Hammann lives in Munich and works mostly in new media, photography, performance, and installations. From 1992 to 2006 she was professor at the art academy in Kassel, Germany.