ANDREA BELLU/MATEI BELLU

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Villa Romana Fellows 2017

Collection of Trials to Describe Reality

Test Run 1: The Relation between the Present to its Past, 2-Channel-Video, 17’25’’ min, 2015
Untitled (2nd Attempt of the Collection of Trials to Describe Reality), Video, 5’48’’ min, 2015
Excursion into the Mountains (4th Attempt of the Collection of Trials to Describe Reality), six literary fragments by Franz Kafka, Elfriede Jelinek, Hubert Fichte, Paul Celan, Ilse Aichinger and Max Frisch, 2016

Attempt of the Collection of Trials to Describe Reality

1. The locus of all points from the same plane for which the sum of their distances from two fixed points remains constant is called an ellipse; it is an imperfect circle
2. An ellipse is a fragmented sentence in which one or more words get omitted, whose sense nonethe- less is guarded solely by the context
3. In the course of a tonal harmony an ellipse refers to the omission of a consonance, which instead is replaced by a pause or a dissonance thereby undermining the accustomed expectations.

(L’viv, 27 Fedorova-Street, 10/9/2014, 16:56-17:00), Inkjet Print, 290 x 168 cm, Sound, 5’16’’, 2016