RECENT WORKS | FORM AND CONTROL: BOULEVARD DE L'EUROPE | ||||
Video, 6:04 min, HD Video, stereo, 2016 | |||||
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"Boulevard de L'Europe" was filmed in December 2015 around the areal of the "Eurotunnel" in Calais. This is the first video in the series "Form and Control", which focuses on late-capitalistic culture and it's space dominating architectural structures: the selected places are oscillating between societal progress and economic profit. "Der Berliner Künstler Niklas Goldbach untersucht in vielen seiner Werke die Spannung zwischen Gesellschaft und Individuum, Architektur und Natur. “Boulevard de l’Europe” ist das erste Video seiner Serie “Form und Control”. In dieser Serie untersucht Goldbach raumgreifende Architekturen unserer Zeit, die eine Gesellschaft zwischen Fortschritt und ökonomischem Profit widerspiegeln. "Boulevard de l’Europe (2016) was filmed on the French side of the Eurotunnel, which links Britain to France below the English Channel. This inner- European border is run by a private company. Recently many refugees have died trying to enter Britain illegally via the Eurotunnel, seeking better prospects of asylum. Border security has been dramatically tightened as a result. Goldbach’s camera shots inspect the web of fences, barbed wire and CCTV. During post-production he removed all traces of human activity to create an artificial environment. In a Europe that professes to be liberal and to encourage freedom of movement, the structures described here express control, restraint and exclusion. "
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