PHOTOGRAPHIE | VIDEO WORK BY FRANK BALVE 

With their surreal, nightmarish images, Frank Balve's photographic series suggest dark associations with individual fears and violent scenarios. Although the viewer is tempted to establish a coherent story or at least connections between them, their meaning ultimately remains enigmatic. The artist often uses photography as a metaphor for memories. Collages further deconstruct these already shadowy images.

 

01| LUSTITIAS TANZ
PHOTOGRAPHY | A4 FORMATS | DECEMBER 2010

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 02| DIE MENGE 

PHOTOGRAPHY | WORKING CLASS | PICTURE 1 | 2.63 x 2 M | DECEMBER 2011 

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03| DAS ATMEN - DAS PFEIFEN - DER TAUCHER - DIE SCHWIMMERIN 

PHOTOGRAPHY | PHOTOGRAPHY C - PRINT | LIGHT BOX | 60 X 84.5 CM | OCTOBER 2012 

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PHOTOGRAPHY | 4 TIMES EACH 100 X 70 CM | 2 TIMES EACH 66 X 100 CM | NOVEMBER 2010

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05| INSIDE OUT

VIDEO PERFORMANCE | VIDEO - 84 MINUTES | OCTOBER 2011

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With "INSIDEOUT" Frank Balve presents a work that confronts the viewer with his own consumer behavior and voyeurism. For this purpose, a glass box was set up in a closed - as well as in a public space. The performance presented in public, including the interactions of the people and performers, was examined more closely and recorded.

The material obtained undergoes a superimposition and merges into one layer. Through the lasciviously depicted aesthetics of the painterly video, the film becomes a moving image with a living motif. This is a reference to the methods and means with which advertising is propagated in urban space. The structures and colors of the work make use of social symbolism.
Through the presentation in the exhibition box, the process of perception is reversed, reflected upon and questioned. The entire work deals with the information processing mechanisms of today's society. The result is an error rate that can be found in the media today.



 


06| TIMBER LA RUINE 

INSTALLATION (SPACE / SOUND / VIDEO ) | PLASTER / WOOD / ASH / TV / CEMENT |
| JULY 2014 | AUGUST 2010


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An abstract tree trunk (9 x 5 x 3 meters) breaks through the floor and extends centrally across most of the darkened room. The broken, seemingly completely dead trunk is the sound body of a calm, repetitive sound installation. Cables sprout from its broken branches. This tangle of mostly cut, torn electrical conductors, which looks like veins, connects the trunk in places with objects that are formally reminiscent of oversized sirens or megaphones.
Integrated into these eight objects (each 0.5 x 0.5 x 0.5 meters) are screens on which a video can be seen. They illuminate the room, fill it with "moving light" and fill it with a "surround sound installation".
The light and sound elements of the "sirens" enter into a dialog with the sound arrangements of the tree trunk through changing image/sound rhythms and periods of silence.
The installation uses sculptural and audiovisual means to create an atmospheric ambience.

 

 

 

 


Frank Balve 

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KUNST BLOCK BALVE

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