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LEAP after The Great Ecstasy
20/04/2013 @ 6:00 pm - 01/06/2013 @ 5:00 pm
freeEnglish Filmmaker & photographer Melanie Manchot gets a new exhibition in central London opening today @ CARSLAW St* Lukes with a new video installation Leap after The Great Ecstasy.
Inspired by Werner Herzog’s film ‘The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner’ (1974), the work observes a range of physical and psychological situations in the quest for a brief moment of perfection.
Set on the world’s largest natural ski jump, the video charts the intense preparations for an annual world cup, both in terms of the materiality of the site and the individuals involved. The piece tracks in great detail those elements that contribute to the construction of a large-scale event as well as the obsessive focus required to perform at the edge of what is possible, to attain ten seconds of human flight and to briefly defy gravitational pull.
For the presentation of Leap after The Great Ecstasy Manchot has devised an installation that takes over the gallery, its yard and playhouse and transforms these into a continuous choreography. A small group of night time photographs opens the show and sets the stage: each of the images is a portrait of the location, of its dense physicality and what it might stand for in terms of danger and desire. The vast and the extensive in a highly recommended expo which runs until June 1st. More info this way.