2003

Sigune Hamann is an interdisciplinary artist whose work encompasses photography, video installations, animated films, and interactive media projects. At the Goethe-Institut's café gallery, the artist will present new photographic work based on material shot in Harajuku, Tokyo. A whole 35mm film is exposed in a photographic camera in a single rewinding movement. This technique captures trajectories of bodies, objects and lights in motion in a single panoramic image. Moving elements such as people and cars tend to be registered more clearly than static backgrounds. This suggestive depiction and abstraction of movement has a very painterly quality reminiscent of Japanese calligraphy. At the same time, the images evoke a strong sense of three-dimensional space. Recording visual fragments of the external space, these works also seem to have an internal layer of meaning: they tell an 'abstract' story which invites the viewer to make his/her own sense of the material.

Born in Frankfurt/Main in 1963, Sigune Hamann currently lives and works in London. Recent projects include a multimedia installation created for the production Only the Names Have Been Changed (Co-directors: Tim Hopkins, Nicholas Ridout; Battersea Arts Centre, 1998, and Festspiel+ of the Munich Opera Festival, 2001), the docufiction website NothingButTheTruth (2001-02), the video installation The Dialogue of the Dogs presented by Lighthouse at the BMC Gallery, Brighton (2003), and a single screen version of The Dialogue of the Dogs shown at the LUX OPEN2003.

A limited edition print is available for sale from the Goethe-Institut London:

Sigune Hamann - film-strips, 2003, digital print, 29 x 47 cm
Edition of 20. Signed and numbered by the artist.
Price £ 90 inc. VAT (unframed)

Please contact Sally-Ann Spencer on 020-7596 4045 or by mail:
spencer@london.goethe.org