Martina Wolf

A travel scholarship of the Hessian arts council brought Martina Wolf to Moscow for a year. Similar to her earlier »window pictures« the artist was looking for suitable motifs via a video camera, which then, according to the window or other framing, produced an image of minimal motion. In »Spielfeld« (play ground), which is situated in front of the window of her Moscow atelier, the artist stirs freely arranged details of the image like houses, trees … by means of movements of the window and thus changes time and space. The unknown component of the image subject is the human walking into the picture. The movement of this person is repeating itself through window reflections in different deferments and directions and puts the film into a poetic narrative perspective although coincidence is always playing a big role. Not the window generated itself to the actual motif of the picture but the objects fixed within the image. »Tag des Sieges« (The day of triumph) is an image within an image, the central spot being a giant video screen illustrating the triumph over fascism at the 9th of May 1945, the scenario taking place within a lively street scenery.