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Niklas Goldbach
When
- Friday
- Feb. 10, 2012
Description
Niklas Goldbach's video HABITAT C3B explores a nearly deserted urban environment populated only by a handful of identical men engaging in an unknown mission. The clone-like characters chase one man that breaks from the group, recalling stock plot twists from science fiction. Produced at the main site of Georges Pompidou's failed gentrification in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, the video chronicles the implied protagonist's journey through a modern yet despondently barren cityscape. The sharp angles of the 1970s architecture provide a stark backdrop to the renegade man, whose simple, repetitive actions become laden with complexity as he encounters others who mirror him in appearance yet chase him through the labyrinthine architecture. The percussion of the footsteps intensifies as the video progresses and punctuates the otherwise still silence. Goldbach heightens tensions between fact and fiction and the ambiguity of reality with long patient shots. He produces a world that is both dystopian and hopeful -- the viewer never learns if the outlaw man escapes or is brought back into the fold.
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512-453-5312
