Eldagsens’ work explores metaphysical to erotic aspects of a timeless human phenomenon – the urge to lose oneself. In referring to this phenomenon as either ‘Mysticism’ (religion), ‘Transpersonality’ (psychology), ‘Desire to Escape’ (Aldous Huxley) or ‘Transgression’ and ‘Unproductive Consumption of the Surplus’ (Georges Bataille), there has always been a redemptive mode to being human.
This redemption can come in a positive or negative form, upward or downward – as we can all disappear into something larger or smaller: religion. drugs, mass events, love, sex, extreme sports, hypnosis etc.
The series how to disappear completely explores this human phenomenon in two different ways. Use the CATEGORIES to navigate.
THE POEMS: staged and non-staged photography and video. Influenced by my ongoing research on the topic. They stand for themselves like poems. Light is not only used as the basic means of photography but as a central symbolic subject.
THE SCHOOLS: video-installations and objects that explore one of the many ways to lose yourself. I call them schools.
Berlin-based artist Boris Eldagsen was born in 1970 in Pirmasens, Germany. He studied philosophy and fine arts in Cologne and Mainz / Germany, Prague / Czech Republic and Hyderabad / India. His photomedia work has been shown internationally in institutions and festivals such as Fridericianum Kassel, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, CCP Melbourne, ACP Sydney, EMAF Osnabrück, Videonale Bonn, Edinburgh Art Festival, Athens Video Art Festival, Kuyre Istanbul, Media Forum Moscow, WRO Media Art Biennale Wroclaw, Biennale Le Havre and Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth. Boris works as a multi-media consultant and an arts lecturer at the Centre for Ideas / Victorian College of the Arts and Music, Melbourne and the PSC Melbourne. He has been teaching at the Akademie für Bildende Künste Mainz, the Sommerakademie of Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Westlicht Wien, F/Stop Leipzig, CCP Melbourne, RMIT University Melbourne and Monash University Melbourne. For his collaborative work BORIS+NATASCHA he is represented by Yasha Young Gallery, New York.Sign up for the newsletter, announcing shows and reviews,
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Published on Jun 12, 2011
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