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AUSSTELLUNG // EXHIBITION
At the very latest since the release of Hitchcock's Vertigo we are now all familiar with the filmic representation of the fear of heights
and fictitious spatial illusions. The film confronts us with claustrophobic images of walls crashing down, holes opening up suddenly or
endlessly widening rooms. Real and fictitious, architectonic and filmic spaces enter into a close relationship, blending into one another
for the duration of the film.
In ›Passageway‹ Julia Willms plays on these icons of fantastic cinema, but nonetheless develops her own visual language. In the Kunsthalle
an existing corridor is projected as an illustration of the real room. Gradually, part of the picture starts to transform itself - the
corridor widens, stairs block the passageway, it turns into a green oasis, into a tunnel, until the whole corridor is filled with water.
›Passageway‹ focusses on the subject of the threshold between real and imaginary space. In its two-dimensional state, the video adopts
elements of the real, three-dimensional space. It implies the blending of reality with fiction, whilst including the audience. The movements
in the video cause the locations to become closer to or further away from the observer. Visitors are invited to become part of the
installation, to cross the threshold of reality and to melt into the fiction.
›A corridor is always a space connecting at least two inner rooms to one another. An interface without any other function. A place
that invites passage, but not lingering. A place of movement. A floodgate leading to something else. A threshold that can be crossed. Into
a new room.‹ (Julia Willms)
Julia Willms, *1974 in Wilhelmshaven. Studied Visual Communication at the Academie Beeldende Kunsten Maastricht and Multimedia
Art at the Vienna University of Applied Art. Nomination for the Kunsthallenpreis 2005, Vienna; video installation for the multimedia
performance ›Ways to Multiply Yourself‹ by the choreographer Andrea Bozic, Gasthuis, Amsterdam, 2005. Julia Willms lives and
works as a free-lance artist in Vienna.
Exhibitions (Selected)
2006 Atelier in PACT Zollverein Essen (D);
2005 Preis der Kunsthalle Wien project space Kunsthalle Wien (A); Diplomausstellung, Universität für angewandte
Kunst Wien (A);
2004 KGON meets K2, K2, Wien (A);
2003 Expo Seidlgasse, Wien (A);
2002 Universität fuer angewandte Kunst Wien (A); backup 2002 Weimar (D); e-basis wien, Wien (A);
2001 Stadtbureau_02, Wien (A).
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