In KONSORTIUM's video work, a car journey is shown from the former Parnass Gallery in Wuppertal to the Düsseldorf Art Academy, but in reverse, so that the route appears to run in the opposite direction. This movement against the flow of time becomes a conceptual element, as the artists literally turn back time to approach the historic 'front garden exhibition'. The film is accompanied by an additional soundtrack. This consists of excerpts from interviews with the children of the artists who participated in the exhibition, in which they are asked about their own lives and everyday routines. At first glance, the statements seem random and banal, seemingly unrelated to the exhibition or its protagonists. However, it is precisely this fragmentation that constitutes the artistic strategy: rather than a linear retrospective, an atmosphere emerges that hovers between memory and slippage. The intention is not to create a documentary reconstruction, but rather to explore how history, identity and artistic biographies continue and are perceived subjectively. The discrepancy between sound and image creates tension, actively challenging the viewer. Who is actually speaking here? And about what? Are the speakers in the car? Are they talking to each other, or are these inner monologues? Thus, the artwork becomes a reflection on collective and individual memory, and on what is inevitably lost in the process.
Karoline Lixenfeld
