Private City - Limited Edition of 1 Print

“The ‘Private City’ project is more a documentary than video art,” he says. “It is an audio-visual investigation and an expression of lateral thinking. The dance in ‘Private City’ is contrary to the sterility of the linear successive shots of urban objects.” The term “private city” means discovering hidden, or undiscovered areas of a city. “This is where the edge of postmodernism is discovered,” he says. “The dancing body is an instrument here. Dancing for someone is always very strong. The public is needed to be able to convey this dance. Even this time it is a camera as an audience. A performer is very strongly focused. He is fully aware of the space, and the public. “‘Private City’ is a dream-like ‘impression’ video. Geert Wachtelaer interweaves powerful levels of meaning, without resorting to cinematography tricks or special effects. At first glance, he is acting as just a temporary prophet, but records his surroundings in an impressive way. The metropolis in the form of a number of desolate cityscapes are bleakly explored and displays just minuscule mechanical movements, void of any human warmth. Enhanced by startling sounds — dark, sober and desolate — the senseless emptiness of this cold city becomes a harsh reality. Is it ‘too late’, as the graffiti on the wall reads? No, because luckily there is antithesis to this alienation. Fortunately, there is a reaction in the shape of a person, real flesh and blood. A woman who internally objects to the vulnerability of her existence and her surroundings. An initially dislocated being yearning to escape from her cocoon. A solitary archetype — guardian of all life — wandering in search of identity, in search of her own ‘Private City’…Geert Wachtelaer could not have chosen a better performer for this role than Emilie de Vlam. She fulfils her role simply brilliantly. Every fibre, every muscle of her body is placed under enormous, intolerable strain.

Print:Giclee on Photo Paper

Size:12 W x 6 H x 0.1 D in

Size with Frame:17.25 W x 11.25 H x 1.2 D in

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