Omer Fast, Garage Sale, 2022

Installation view as presented in Omer Fast: Garage Sale, ajh.pm, Bielefeld

Three channel video installation, color, sound
Variable dimensions
29m 30s
Edition 6 + 2 AP

Garage Sale gathers three video projections around a protagonist whose voice-over recounts her fascination for Van Eyck’s portrait of the Arnolfini couple and the failure of a project that never materialized.
A clicking soundtrack punctuates the entire film, recalling the photographic snap of an analog camera shutter. Throughout the film, the woman interrupts her own narrative flow by giving terse instructions to the cinematographer, off camera.
The story takes place in two locations: a yard sale in front of a house in suburban New Jersey and a house in Hanover, where one of the narrator’s husband’s parents lives. From these elements, a complex story unfolds that links several family histories, the weight of cultural heritage and the weight of racism. Garage Sale explores the question of how traumatic events are dealt with in a family and how the memory of these events is passed on from one generation to the next.
Omer Fast questions the space between the analog image and its digital counterparts, between the past and the present, individual and collective memory in order to perhaps repair the unspoken wounds.

Omer Fast, Garage Sale, 2022

Installation view as presented in Omer Fast: Garage Sale, ajh.pm, Bielefeld

Three channel video installation, color, sound
Variable dimensions
29m 30s
Edition 6 + 2 AP

Garage Sale gathers three video projections around a protagonist whose voice-over recounts her fascination for Van Eyck’s portrait of the Arnolfini couple and the failure of a project that never materialized.
A clicking soundtrack punctuates the entire film, recalling the photographic snap of an analog camera shutter. Throughout the film, the woman interrupts her own narrative flow by giving terse instructions to the cinematographer, off camera.
The story takes place in two locations: a yard sale in front of a house in suburban New Jersey and a house in Hanover, where one of the narrator’s husband’s parents lives. From these elements, a complex story unfolds that links several family histories, the weight of cultural heritage and the weight of racism. Garage Sale explores the question of how traumatic events are dealt with in a family and how the memory of these events is passed on from one generation to the next.
Omer Fast questions the space between the analog image and its digital counterparts, between the past and the present, individual and collective memory in order to perhaps repair the unspoken wounds.

Omer Fast, Garage Sale, 2022

Video still, Omer Fast, Garage Sale, 2022

Three channel video installation, color, sound
Variable dimensions
29m 30s
Edition 6 + 2 AP

Garage Sale gathers three video projections around a protagonist whose voice-over recounts her fascination for Van Eyck’s portrait of the Arnolfini couple and the failure of a project that never materialized.
A clicking soundtrack punctuates the entire film, recalling the photographic snap of an analog camera shutter. Throughout the film, the woman interrupts her own narrative flow by giving terse instructions to the cinematographer, off camera.
The story takes place in two locations: a yard sale in front of a house in suburban New Jersey and a house in Hanover, where one of the narrator’s husband’s parents lives. From these elements, a complex story unfolds that links several family histories, the weight of cultural heritage and the weight of racism. Garage Sale explores the question of how traumatic events are dealt with in a family and how the memory of these events is passed on from one generation to the next.
Omer Fast questions the space between the analog image and its digital counterparts, between the past and the present, individual and collective memory in order to perhaps repair the unspoken wounds.

Omer Fast, Garage Sale, 2022

Video still, Omer Fast, Garage Sale, 2022

Three channel video installation, color, sound
Variable dimensions
29m 30s
Edition 6 + 2 AP

Garage Sale gathers three video projections around a protagonist whose voice-over recounts her fascination for Van Eyck’s portrait of the Arnolfini couple and the failure of a project that never materialized.
A clicking soundtrack punctuates the entire film, recalling the photographic snap of an analog camera shutter. Throughout the film, the woman interrupts her own narrative flow by giving terse instructions to the cinematographer, off camera.
The story takes place in two locations: a yard sale in front of a house in suburban New Jersey and a house in Hanover, where one of the narrator’s husband’s parents lives. From these elements, a complex story unfolds that links several family histories, the weight of cultural heritage and the weight of racism. Garage Sale explores the question of how traumatic events are dealt with in a family and how the memory of these events is passed on from one generation to the next.
Omer Fast questions the space between the analog image and its digital counterparts, between the past and the present, individual and collective memory in order to perhaps repair the unspoken wounds.

Omer Fast, Garage Sale, 2022

Video still, Omer Fast, Garage Sale, 2022

Three channel video installation, color, sound
Variable dimensions
29m 30s
Edition 6 + 2 AP

Garage Sale gathers three video projections around a protagonist whose voice-over recounts her fascination for Van Eyck’s portrait of the Arnolfini couple and the failure of a project that never materialized.
A clicking soundtrack punctuates the entire film, recalling the photographic snap of an analog camera shutter. Throughout the film, the woman interrupts her own narrative flow by giving terse instructions to the cinematographer, off camera.
The story takes place in two locations: a yard sale in front of a house in suburban New Jersey and a house in Hanover, where one of the narrator’s husband’s parents lives. From these elements, a complex story unfolds that links several family histories, the weight of cultural heritage and the weight of racism. Garage Sale explores the question of how traumatic events are dealt with in a family and how the memory of these events is passed on from one generation to the next.
Omer Fast questions the space between the analog image and its digital counterparts, between the past and the present, individual and collective memory in order to perhaps repair the unspoken wounds.

Omer Fast, Garage Sale, 2022

Video still, Omer Fast, Garage Sale, 2022

Three channel video installation, color, sound
Variable dimensions
29m 30s
Edition 6 + 2 AP

Garage Sale gathers three video projections around a protagonist whose voice-over recounts her fascination for Van Eyck’s portrait of the Arnolfini couple and the failure of a project that never materialized.
A clicking soundtrack punctuates the entire film, recalling the photographic snap of an analog camera shutter. Throughout the film, the woman interrupts her own narrative flow by giving terse instructions to the cinematographer, off camera.
The story takes place in two locations: a yard sale in front of a house in suburban New Jersey and a house in Hanover, where one of the narrator’s husband’s parents lives. From these elements, a complex story unfolds that links several family histories, the weight of cultural heritage and the weight of racism. Garage Sale explores the question of how traumatic events are dealt with in a family and how the memory of these events is passed on from one generation to the next.
Omer Fast questions the space between the analog image and its digital counterparts, between the past and the present, individual and collective memory in order to perhaps repair the unspoken wounds.