Sources: Stills from video copy of the movie Terminator 2 – Judgement Day, and quotations from the bible / new testament. Two versions: Gospel quotations in German or English.
James Cameron‘s movie ‘Terminator 2’ is full of allusions to the Passion and Salvation of Christ, including its moralistic clichés. Far-reaching social processes are worked at by a family of “Saviors“. Their protagonists: The two saviors: the Terminator (Schwarzenegger) and the boy. The remorseful sinner, the proselytized black scientist, becomes a martyr. The visionary initiator of the “salvation process“: Sarah, the boy‘s mother. The menacing purgatory: the atomic bomb. The video stills are combined with quotations from the New Testament and virtual gold frames. Put together as two triptychs, they form an ironic citation of the type of picture used for worshipping.
Until the mid-2000s, the resolution of video and television images was still very low. Even the technical quality of a DVD was far inferior to that of a feature film, and its original 16:9 aspect ratio was cropped to 4:3 on the DVD. However, Thyes appreciated the colourfulness and pixel structure of these old video formats and television interfaces, which lent the videos and still images a painterly quality.
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Exhibitions
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Speeded Up Flags and Slowed Down Heroes
Solo ExhibitionKunstverein Rhein-SiegSiegburgGermany30.05.2009 – 07.08.2009 -
Myriam Thyes – Transformations
Solo ExhibitionFestival International EchternachEchternachLuxemburg20.06.1997 – 06.07.1997 -
European Deconstructions
Solo ExhibitionKunstraum Alter WiehrebahnhofFreiburgGermany30.04.1993 – 16.05.1993