Örtlich Regen, 2017
Videoinstallationre:bunkers (Denkort Bunker Valentin, Bremen)
Videoinstallation Bunker Valentin, 6 min
„[…] For different reasons this brings me back to the bunkers in Normandy. They mostly served as a dissuasive presence to prevent potential attacks, as a place to observe the coast. Soldiers must have spent long hours there, entrenched in these solid buildings, not moving, looking at the ocean. Their experience was probably close to the one of the sentinel in the „château-fort“ — one of our war-toys as children. Within the constructions we were building or the games we played outdoors, this essential yet never influential character was spending the game wating for a potential attack, looking through a tiny window (if one was available) and observing the landscape, i.e. the room or the garden in our case.
In her video, Sabine Peter shows the ocean as filmed from a surveillance camera on the coast. Looking at this massive amount of water, moving in repetitive manner yet never fully repeating itself, she confronts the viewer with an extremely reduced plot, conveying a sense of vacuity.
But this time there is no soldier behind the lens, just the recording machine, suggesting a disconnected relation to the surrounding [...].“
Fanny Gonella “A blinding sun” in der Publikation “RE:Bunker”