Text Sybil Wendler

The video installation Ring is constructed by pictorial readings of violence and reality. Its images do not tend to show violence as such, but reflect a search on the varied shapes of appearance, different shades and ambiguities. Ring is constituted by questions, questions for the perception of violence, reality and its effect.

Ring (The Means of Illusion) (2006/2007) begins through the eyes of the artist. Its cinematic thread meanders through a disjunctive chain of images, delimiting a metaphorical shift between two states of consciousness, that of the real as symbolized by the neutral emptiness of the desert, and of a mediated reality as represented by the violent spectacle of various boxing matches. 
The former contains no thought, no contamination of human interaction, whereas the latter is the fictitious representation of life, a treacherous simulacrum, as manipulated images that relentlessly assault our perception of reality. The fights and clamoring crowds are collaged together as a singular event, feigning a continuity that belies its constructed videomontage.