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Restoring my father's work. And now it is my work. video film, 19:54 min, widescreen Lugnez 2015 In 2012, I captured footage of my father constructing a fence installation behind his house in the village of Lugnez in the Swiss Jura. Indifferent to the likelihood that this particular piece would remain unseen, he embarked on the project simply because the installation needed to exist. Following his demise in 2015, I took on the challenge of reconstructing the installation after it had succumbed to the passage of time. Posthumously, the deteriorating installation has become a 'ready-made-fixer-upper' in my eyes, boldly adopted as my own piece of art. This work raises questions about the inheritance and ownership of culture. In the original film, we discuss the use of posts from a fence that someone else (the previous landowner) had erected on his land. Similarly, as he repurposed someone else's product, I, in turn, repurpose his product and assert it as my own.

video still, Lugnez, Swiss Jura, September 2015

 

Presentation at Littoral Light II organized and curated by Sue Fletcher and Aidan Gray, 28 July 2017, Ramsgate, UK

projection of my father, Franzueli Rechsteiner, erecting his landart piece on the left-hand side and me re-erecting it after his death.

 

 

'The ships are always there' curated by Chiara Williams Contemporary Art, Margate, UK, 19 - 28 August 2017

projection of both pieces of footage into two plinths on metal trestle legs
http://www.chiarawilliams.com/ships.html

 

Crate Space, Margate, UK, 2017

Crate Space, Margate, UK, 2017

 

 

 

 

 

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