"Tu ne reconnaîtrais pas ton frére entre deux gouttes d'eau"

Exhibition period: March the 29th – April the 8th

Irene Tetaz (1963) is a Swiss artist, who lives in Paris. As a part of Multiplace festival she presents her video called “You won`t recognize your brother between two drops of water” from 2003.
In January 2003 rented Irčne Tétaz her new studio at the end of the street la Goutte d'Or in Paris. This district fascinated her for the first sight with its cosmopolitan character, with connection and crossing of cultures, races, religions as well as generations. This unusual rush, energy, motion, pulsating life here and now, everything such different from her Swiss (refined and sterile) as well as from our Slovak (letargic and more melancholy) environment. Realised video is a record of this happening on the street, it is some kind of a video-diary of the street. It consists of 12 short, few-minutes long parts – records of single days. They were recorded from the studio's window on the principle of hidden, watching camera. Therefore we can see children on a playground, men and women hurrying up somewhere through the branches of the trees or through the architectonical details of the fence or of the banisters etc. The shots are quite dim, they are simultaneously flowing together, respectively repeating. The sound component of the video is created by the indistinct record of the street's traffic, which merges with a very short 10 seconds long fragment of the Scanner's music (Irene Tetaz listen to music of this artist often in her studio). With its character, sound record copies the rhythm of the flowing images of the visual part.
Video is presented in a public space of a shopping center, which usually has few its own watching cameras. According to this reason, the projection, which is running on 4 monitors in the interior of the shopping center, can be hardly identify. It makes the sensitive visitors insecure, it gives the questions, if everything what we see in the video is happening really here and if the visitor can see himself there. Who and where are all that people?

Thanks to:
Polus City Center, Bratislava

For more information please contact the curator of the exhibition.
Michaela Secanska, email: mychellle@hotmail.com, tel: 00421 904 460 459