Marc Aschenbrenner: 6 Ants

On Saturday, 26 October 2024 at 12:30 pm we will be showing a short film by Marc Aschenbrenner.

The green giant heads and snowmen, the backpack and wheel people, the algae-covered, golden, sweating figures, the snail-like, insect-like, tightly wrapped creatures from Marc Aschenbrenner’s cosmos move around uninhabited spaces on abandoned planets and lost posts, in orbits around nothingness. They are lonely. They feel, but their feelings are often unrecognisable. Every moment is a state.

Either they fight blindly against the acts of violence that tear at them, or they surrender to the elements and drift, swim, die completely in them. And sometimes there is only breathing left – as the only sign of life and as an expression of final abandonment. Like an astronaut who glides through space and can only hear himself breathing in and out in the all-encompassing silence.

Marc Aschenbrenner studied painting, then experimented early on with Super 8 film technology and increasingly turned to video. Whether film, performance or drawing, the artist is primarily interested in how a person becomes an image and a figure, i.e. how a figure emerges and dissolves, how a symbiosis with the space is created. ‘Formally, I try to work as simply as possible and leave out the non-essentials,’ says the artist.

The film lasts 15 minutes.

Admission is free.