Film 2019
Film installation 2021
Pastels on paper 2018-2019
Artist’s book 2021
Film
Dust (Staub), 2019
Animation with pastels on paper
3054 x 2160 pixel, digital film, color
13 min
Film Funding by Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, Germany
This is a film about projected color. A color film in the truest sense of the word. Each of the twelve sequences is painted in a different color. In the sequence of individual images, the hand animation, a lively color space is created. All image compositions concentrate around a center line, similar to a horizon. This leads to imagined spatial effects. The longer one looks at the pulsating color surfaces, the more one loses oneself in imagined spaces. This description may sound as abstract as the type of painting that occurs in it. In fact, the film intuitively guides the viewer to an interface between the immanent effects of painting and film. A colored celluloid film is also coated with color pigments. Their constant light noise makes up part of what you unconsciously associate with the film experience. Working with ultra-fine pigment – novel, recently developed pastels – allows extremely nuanced color effects. This film thus makes something elementary cinematic visible through the means of painting and animation, which is also conveyed in high-resolution digital projection.
Together with Carl Ludwig Hübsch and the bass flutist Angelika Sheridan, a soundtrack has been developed, which assigns the moving monochromy of the color spaces a similarly lively monotony. The fact that these are purely acoustic sounds is hardly recognizable to the listener. (Daniel Kothenschulte)
Film installation
Mirjam Baker. Dust
solo exhibition at tresor at Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien, Vienna
curated by Veronika Rudorfer
3 Oct – 21 Nov 2021
Video documentation
Artist’s book
“Mirjam Baker – Staub | Dust” is the accompanying publication to the exhibition “Mirjam Baker. Dust” in the tresor at Bank Austria Kunstforum Wien in Vienna from 3rd Oct. – 21st Nov. 2021. Read texts here.
Further exhibitions of Dust installation (large scale projection)
2024 Kunstverein Leverkusen, Schloss Morsbroich
Small scale exhibitions of Dust installation (film on screen or smaller projection)
2026 Bild für Bild, ASIFA Austria – 1985 bis heute, factory at Künstlerhaus, Vienna
2023 Kulturbahnhof Nettersheim
2020 Priska Pasquer
2019 Cologne Fine Art & Design