Frozen Frame / Turning Frame

Presents, Exhibition, Temporality, Translation, Exhibition

Exhibition View, “Frozen Frame / Turning Frame,” Pinacoteca, Vienna, 2015. Marlies Pöschl, “xx.” Photo: Thomas Ries

Eine Ausstellung in Kooperation mit der VIENNA ART WEEK

■ DATE:

18.-22.11.2015

■ LOCATION:

Pinacoteca, Große Neugasse 44/2, 1040 Vienna

■ CONCEPT AND REALIZATION:

Nathalie Koger

■ ARTISTS:

Iris Blauensteiner, Nathalie Koger, Lydia Nsiah, Simona Obholzer, Christiana Perschon, Marlies Poeschl, Katharina Swoboda and Bernhard Staudinger

The exhibition explores how moving images condense into striking key images and how this can shift or transform narrative meanings.

Moving images often condense in memory into a few striking moments that persist as key images. In the form of frozen frames, they unfold a particular intensity that transfers affectively to the viewers. At the same time, they hold the potential to shift, reframe, or entirely reinterpret narrative trajectories within cinematic realities.
Building on these considerations, the exhibition brings together materials, insights into artistic works, and reformulations from the working corpus of artists of The Golden Pixel Cooperative. It is conceived as an exploration of filmic processes beyond linear narrative structures and as an inquiry into how individual image moments can condense and transform meaning.
The exhibition also marked the starting point of the event series “Let’s Remain Realistic,” conceived by The Golden Pixel Cooperative from 2016 onward.