Katleen Vermeir

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In these video-recordings time is made to stand still by seemingly freezing human actions against a setting of almost motionless landscapes or architectural sites. They refer, among other things, to mediaeval miniatures in which perspective and scale are seen in an incorrect and thus odd composition. From across the Hudson River portraits of people were made in artificial sets. The zoom of the camera intermingled reality and fiction. The real New York skyline became part of our set, the video image generated enough depth in order for the real city to become almost imaginary: like a glimpse of an ideal city.
While one of the portraits is being done a tanker sails by.�