11.09.22 | In voices we rest. The films of Miriam Gossing and Lina Sieckmann

The duo Miriam Gossing and Lina Sieckmann create experimental works in the fields of film, photography and installative video art. Their works are shot on 16mm and subsequently digitized. The short films often use documentary content, frequently provided with a voice-over, the texts are based on interviews or forum entries. These texts – performed by professional narrators – enrich the static, human-emptied images with additional layers of meaning. Whether for the thematically arranged wedding altars on the highways of Nevada, the cloudy suburban idylls of Massachusetts, or the sedate cruise ships of Northern Europe: the stories and the tonalities of the narrators’ voices, accompanied by a sophisticated, not infrequently somber sound design, set a diffuse unease into the arrangements. In the process, the two artists question spaces about their relationships to human passions and obsessions.