Alexandra Navratil
Time Lags Lost In Real Time

Time Lags Lost In Real Time, a project by Swiss artist Alexandra Navratil (1978), is an installation that will be on view in De Inkijk, projectspace of SKOR, between 21 January and 28 February 2010.

The installation investigates the parallels between the architecture of cinematic production, and the architecture of power structures. The idea of modernist architecture launched with the Utopia of a Socialist Ideal was rapidly transformed by cinema into an architecture of wealth and power, on the screen. These filmsets often demonstrate the same characteristics as the spaces employed throughout architectural history, and indeed still in use today, for political purposes: symmetry, central perspective, the interplay of proportions and expensive materials and, most importantly, since the invention of photography, the visual potential with reference to the camera, and the photogenic impact and effect.

Considering the specific context of the space at De Inkijk, Alexandra Navratil reflects on the issues through the structure of the installation, that itself responds to the space, in combination with collages of different architectonical elements. The imagery used for the collages will reference elements of Dutch history and its architecture.