Together with Ben (2006), the film explores the relationship between physicality and representation – between language and image. Rather than constructing metaphors through which reality might be understood and onto which they are applied instead the film’s subject is the study of a focus group, witnessed from behind a two-way mirror. It becomes an example of the way in which speaking subjects (these teenage girls that we see speaking, but do not hear) become images. Their becoming-surface in this way is echoed throughout the film’s persistent looking at other kinds of reflective surfaces – from the mirrors in an empty nightclub to the glass walls of corporations – such that representation itself becomes a function in the equation rather than a replacement of it. Composed by the artist using computer software the film’s soundtrack is designed to be symmetrical on the page. (Ian White)

Courtesy the artist and Carlier Gebauer, Berlin, STANDARD (OSLO) and Altman Siegal, San Francisco

• Sektion Section: Film
• Programm Programme: Emily Wardill 3