PRESERVATION OF A MUSE

Preservation of a Muse is an 18-minute recording of a computer desktop. Like a transcendental god figure, the artist speaks on a webcam from a forest of windows. She talks about her older friend Wolfgang. Exactly two years ago, she wanted to scan his body in a studio in order to build a large sculpture of him for an exhibition. But on that day, Wolfgang suddenly tells her about his cancer diagnosis. In the face of illness, the plan changes. As if searching, Lili now moves his 3D image through various virtual spaces, as if looking for an image that does justice to him and the history of his body. In interviews, Wolfgang talks about his relationship to his body in the face of illness, about eternity and holding on. Thus, the visual collage forms an investigation: how modernity diagnoses bodies with images and manifests itself through regimes of gaze.

Year

2025

Director

Lili Süper

Duration

17 min

Country

Germany, United Kingdom

Language

English