In 1998, British conceptual artist Adam Chodzko confronted a group of club, rave, and concert light technicians with this unusual problem.  He arranged a meeting between these specialists in the forest at night, requesting that they bring their equipment. All ensuing discussions and attempts to respond to the question were documented on film.  The resulting double video projection „Nightvision“ follows these efforts to respond to an unresolvable issue and observes the development of an imaginary space. This is built from both personal and collective ideas, desires, visions – until the lights turn off at the end.

Taking Adam Chodzko’s question as a starting point, the group exhibition in our gallery reflects the interest in visualizing connections between reality and fantasy. Alternative spaces come into being through the creation of myths, through surrealist links to the present, through poetic or existential introspections. More than just nostalgic or romantic impulses, the results are highly subjective and specific responses to the simplistic messages of our hyper-mediated world.