Hasipur - The Story
The Hasipur installation, exhibited at the Gerisch Foundation in Neumünster, occupied 16 different spaces throughout the museum. It consisted of two main parts: the first was displayed in the modern gallery, while the second was shown in the villa, the main building of the 100-year-old museum.
The installation comprised sculpture, spatial drawings which were spread in all the museum floors and three main video films, including The Light Workers and Villa Wachholtz, which was based on original drawings and virtual animation.
The Villa Wachholtz film was screened on the upper floor of the museum and operated as a metaphysical expansion of the space itself. The main motif of the film focused on an action of reversal, neutralization and disconnection from physical gravitation and the human perspective.
The spectator stood in the space itself, looking like a ghost at the film, which turned the building's external casing and identity into an internal texture. The eye of the camera became the eye of consciousness itself. The film showed the metaphorical construction of a subconscious elevator which took the spectator down to a depth of some 10 km underground. In fact, the film dealt with the archeological-historical-energetic layer of life information which had been absorbed throughout the years by the walls of the building itself.
The installation as a whole had been adapted to the space itself and tailored to its dimensions.
A catalogue of the exhibition was published.
Herbert Gerisch Stiftung, Villa Wachholtz, Neumünster, Germany
