scene missing

The exhibition [scene missing] presents eleven recent positions that engage with cinema and film. Without showing film in the usual sense or simulating cinematic situations, the works on view all interrogate methods of narrative construction and point out the fragmentary character of reality and its filmic representation. The absence of cinema and film in the exhibition [scene missing] is a product of our collective memory of film. The visitor to the exhibition completes the “scene missing” by recalling his or her own memories of cinema and film history. In the area of tension between black box and white cube, cinema becomes the material for the works exhibited at Galerie Thomas Schulte.

In contrast to avant-garde film and expanded cinema, the motivation is not breaking with standard conventions for the purpose of artistic practice, but rather the appropriation of such conventions. The conventions of filmic representation provide a starting point. Narrative structures, an interest in the mechanics of the projection apparatus, cinematographic traditions, and film reception are all subjected to deconstruction and recoding. Film history becomes a raw material.

The exhibition [scene missing] was curated by Fiona Liewehr and is presented in collaboration with Georg Kargl Fine Arts in Vienna.