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Peter Bogers

Glued Eye

Vidéo | hdv | noir et blanc | 30:0 | Pays-Bas, 0 | 2018

Glued Eye 2-channel installation Peter Bogers, The Netherlands, 2019 www.peterbogers.com The installation consists of two black and white video images, one video projector and two thin (2 mm) illuminated fiber lines. A large projection shows images of moving objects or people that are fixed in one place on the wall by means of a sophisticated tracking technique. This technique continuously shifts the frame of the video image in a way that the chosen object stays in one place. Thus, all movements are neutralized. Directly behind the projector a very small 4,7 inch screen shows a close-up of a moving eyeball, of which the pupil is fixed in the middle of the screen. A luminous wire is stretched across the exhibition room, between the fixed point of the projected image and the center of the small eye pupil. The wire is a physical and stationary element in the exhibition room.

1965 Born in Dordrecht, The Netherlands 1981 Graduated from Art Academy St. Joost, Breda, The Netherlands at the sculpture department. Lives and Works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands In the early eighties Bogers was heavily involved in performance art, but gradually started to use the video camera as an intermediary between himself and the public. In the nineties he started to approach sound and image more and more as self-contained, flexible media that give him access to the element of time and thus can be transformed in an attempt to make a statement about the complexity and incomprehensibility of human nature. Bogers has had solo exhibitions in international museums and galleries in Amsterdam, Utrecht, Bremen, Stuttgart, Osnabrück, Beijing, Tokyo, Marseille, Split and Pittsburgh. Among others his work is in the collection of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Museum of fine arts, Taipei and Harvard University, USA.