Ascension + Depression Marquis

DEPRESSION MARQUIS (2009, 2:23): The glass elevator at the luxurious hotel Marriott Marquis in New York rides down – the long ride ends in glacier ice. A metaphor for depressions which can affect people living in abundance.

ASCENSION (2004, 1:11): The glass elevator at the luxurious hotel Marriott Marquis in New York brings you to “heaven” … We are brought up and tought to strive for higher things – success, wealth, honour, and/or spiritual enlightenment. ASCENSION shows – in a brief and ironic way – this aspiration and its compensation. 

In the video diptych or 2 channel installation, the elevator rides in opposite directions. Ascension is running twice during one presentation of Depression Marquis.

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Downloads

• Work description, PDF (EN, 572 KB)

Videos

• Depression Marquis, 2009, video DV Pal, stereo, 2:23 By clicking the image or the video link you accept the Vimeo privacy policy.
• Ascension, 2004, video DV Pal, stereo, 1:11 By clicking the image or the video link you accept the Vimeo privacy policy.

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Exhibitions

• Motion To Space (link to archive) Group ExhibitionGalleria Milano + Istituto SvizzeroMilanItaly
  14.01.2015 – 15.02.2015
• Videolounge of the imai Foundation Group ExhibitionNRW-ForumDusseldorfGermany
  18.07.2019
• Raumwelten (link to archive) Group ExhibitionMuseum BärengasseZurichSwitzerland
  08.02.2013 – 24.03.2013
• Enigma della Modernità (link to archive) Group ExhibitionSpazio OfficinaChiassoSwitzerland
  02.03.2012 – 05.04.2012

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