Illusions, National SGBK-Exhibition, Zurich 1995. Myriam Thyes, Sarah (1995/2002), 25 c-prints on alu dibond, 45 x 30 cm each, 9 meters in all. Here: first edition of this work, 1995, photochemical exposure.

Sarah

1995 / 200225 c-prints on aluminium DiBond, 45 x 30 cm each, total length 9 meters.

Montages of stills from video copy of the movie Terminator 2 – Judgement Day  by James Cameron.

The unknown, and everything that refuses to be easily classified, held onto or used, as well as everything that changes, is known to unsettle us and to evoke fear. In Christianity, these aspects of life and death were seen as devilish – and women were said to be the carriers of evil. Such attitudes can be observed until today – for example sometimes in Hollywood movies. In this sequence of images, the conventional Passion and Salvation of Christ, as seen in the film ‚Terminator 2‘, is revalued. It describes another story, far from moralistic allocations. Changes inside a person and changes of matter – they go together and happen in parallel. The face of Sarah O‘Connor (in the movie she is the mother of mankind‘s savior) changes through many emotional expressions. The robot made of liquid metal, the terminator symbolizing evil, also constantly changes, like an element changing its physical state.

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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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