THE POSTHUMAN CONDITION - A Questionmark Installation (2020)
3-channel 4K video-installation, 10 mins loop, dimensions variable

This video installation consists of two bodies of work:

PLASTIC FOREST, a collaboration with CoCo Katsura (concept), Xinru Lee and Lisa Steertz (performance). Based on the tradition of Japanese Butoh dance, PLASTIC FOREST enters a post-apocalyptic world that has its own beauty and absurdity. It consists of two parts (before/after the storm).

In the middle, you find a collaboration with Aun Helden: UNTYING [THE PAST OF THE FUTURE] - A Posthuman Statement. To overcome the trauma of sexual abuse, the Brazilian performer Aun Helden slips into a new, non-binary, alien-like skin.


THE POSTHUMAN CONDITION

My work revolves around the idea of losing yourself, from the metaphysical to the erotic.

I photograph at night to explore the limits of depiction. Rather than exploring stories, a place or a person, I hijack and transform the external reality, to paint a reality beyond time and space: that of the unconscious. Working in this paradoxical way, people have difficulties in attributing me to a school of photography.

Like Goethe’s Faust, I pursue “whatever holds the world together in its inmost folds” to create pictures that are inaccessible to the rational mind, compelling the viewer to turn to their own memories and feelings.

Without excessive materials or digital effects, I combine the techniques of street and staged photography to create images that sit between painting, film and theatre. Transferring this quality to the presentation of my work, I create site-specific installations using a variety of formats from wallpaper to video to create an experience in which reality becomes fluid and visitors can walk through images into an inner space. Thus I call my photographs POEMS .

If you are interested in modelling contact me through 
mail ( at ) eldagsen.com 
or facebook.com/boriseldagsen 

Thankyou will be an A3 print of one of the resulting images.

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