Pia Rönicke, Somewhere Out There, 1998

Video animation
Color, sound
Duration 9 min 35 sec
Edition 7 (+ 1 A.P.)

With Rönicke’s subtle and seductive collages of sound and images she is commenting on the urban structure and modernism’s fallen ideals. Her videos are visual and auditory samplings of film music, photos, comics, nature visions and her own drawings of cityscapes and gardens, creating as a whole a poetic future vision of the space we occupy. There is no linear narrative, but an accumulation of associative images presented in slow tracking shots, takes the viewer into an atmospheric space, where cars are driving to apartment houses, satellites are gliding above the skyscrapers, and modern interiors with designed furniture are inhabited by stiffened Japanese comic figures and models from lifestyle magazines. It could have been a science fiction movie from the 50’s, envisioning the future of modernism, presented with irony and a sense of unavoidable decay.

Pia Rönicke, Somewhere Out There, 1998

Video animation
Color, sound
Duration 9 min 35 sec
Edition 7 (+ 1 A.P.)

With Rönicke’s subtle and seductive collages of sound and images she is commenting on the urban structure and modernism’s fallen ideals. Her videos are visual and auditory samplings of film music, photos, comics, nature visions and her own drawings of cityscapes and gardens, creating as a whole a poetic future vision of the space we occupy. There is no linear narrative, but an accumulation of associative images presented in slow tracking shots, takes the viewer into an atmospheric space, where cars are driving to apartment houses, satellites are gliding above the skyscrapers, and modern interiors with designed furniture are inhabited by stiffened Japanese comic figures and models from lifestyle magazines. It could have been a science fiction movie from the 50’s, envisioning the future of modernism, presented with irony and a sense of unavoidable decay.

Pia Rönicke, Somewhere Out There, 1998

Video animation
Color, sound
Duration 9 min 35 sec
Edition 7 (+ 1 A.P.)

With Rönicke’s subtle and seductive collages of sound and images she is commenting on the urban structure and modernism’s fallen ideals. Her videos are visual and auditory samplings of film music, photos, comics, nature visions and her own drawings of cityscapes and gardens, creating as a whole a poetic future vision of the space we occupy. There is no linear narrative, but an accumulation of associative images presented in slow tracking shots, takes the viewer into an atmospheric space, where cars are driving to apartment houses, satellites are gliding above the skyscrapers, and modern interiors with designed furniture are inhabited by stiffened Japanese comic figures and models from lifestyle magazines. It could have been a science fiction movie from the 50’s, envisioning the future of modernism, presented with irony and a sense of unavoidable decay.