brändstöm & stene install images

Projected on a screen big enough to make the viewer feel almost
physically present within the work, Infinite Melancholy, 2003, is a continuous panning shot in which the camera seems to fly over a flat white surface. The words CHRISTOPHER REEVE sometimes legible, sometimes dissolving nto a blur as the camera appears to slow down and speed up are printed over and over in endless rows on this otherwise featureless plane. It's as if you were flying up the side of an infinitely tall skyscraper in the arms of Superman while at the same time confronting the fate of the actor who played him. A down-tempo piano sound track undercuts the sense of exhilarating motion and heightensthe feeling that there's a comment on American hubris in here somewhere... [read more]

-Power Ekroth
Excerpt from Critics Picks, Artforum.com, 20.05.2004

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	Infinite Melancholy, 4 minute loop 2003 View at Galleri Brändstöm & Stene, Stockholm Sweden April 29 to June 6 2004 quicktime movie	Projected on a screen big enough to make the viewer feel almost physically present within the work, Infinite Melancholy, 2003, is a continuous panning shot in which the camera seems to fly over a flat white surface. The words CHRISTOPHER REEVE sometimes legible, sometimes dissolving nto a blur as the camera appears to slow down and speed up are printed over and over in endless rows on this otherwise featureless plane. It's as if you were flying up the side of an infinitely tall skyscraper in the arms of Superman while at the same time confronting the fate of the actor who played him. A down-tempo piano sound track undercuts the sense of exhilarating motion and heightensthe feeling that there's a comment on American hubris in here somewhere... [read more] -Power Ekroth Excerpt from Critics Picks, Artforum.com, 20.05.2004