Inspired by the use of metaphor in contemporary political rhetoric, they are here traced back to ways in which stained glass windows were a vehicle for communication in a largely illiterate medieval society. Details of the windows reveal a peculiarly contemporary, radical kind of fragmentation. Figures and signs are extrapolated into an oblique yet melodramatic narrative of desire, exchange and representation. By turn highly stylized and slapstick it is played by actors on specially constructed sets that share a similar hybrid aesthetic to the costumes worn in Ben, here rendered spectacularly in colour. (Ian White)

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

• Sektion Section: Film
• Programm Programme: Emily Wardill 2