Digital Media Production-Mosaic

For the final stage of our blog development, we had to construct a video relating to the French railway graphic used as a background of the Innart blog. The video Mosaic is a view from the train, the different scenes in strips as glimpsed through the windows.

Identity

Identity from Sarah Coller on Vimeo.

Artist Statement

She has been interested in the notion of identity and what makes a person that specific person through time and space. The questions she asks herself are age old and clichéd with the endless asking and answering, but that doesn’t lessen the intrigue she feels as she ponders who she was, is and will be in a moments time. Every time she constructs a new profile on a website she asks; ‘is that really me?’ Looking at old images she asks; ‘was that really me?’ She wonders at the layers of memory that construct the known or unknown projection, the reflection; ‘is this really me?’ she asks and questions what that actually means. She has worked at recording herself in different ways to get a glimpse of her true identity, the one which isn’t a profile to log into, nor the smiling social chameleon on computers old and new, close and afar, clogging Terabytes of disk space. She looks at the artworks of her younger self, by her younger self, searching for the person that was and maybe still is, amongst the rushing, flashing and fleeting images of the mind. Thoughts and memory, experiences and sounds clamour for prime position to claim the mantel of her identity, but in the end there can only be one, a single being identified every second, momentarily unique and alone.

Iconic Irony

Iconic Irony from Sarah Coller on Vimeo.

The 'son of man' a self-portrait by Rene Magritte depicts a man in an overcoat and a bowler hat standing in front of a short wall, beyond which is the sea and a cloudy sky. The man's face is largely obscured by a hovering green apple.
This work as been appropriated in different ways since it's beginning; the anonymous archetypal image of every man, resonates in people.

Magritte said of the work
"At least it hides the face partly. Well, so you have the apparent face, the apple, hiding the visible but hidden, the face of the person. It's something that happens constantly. Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us. This interest can take the form of a quite intense feeling, a sort of conflict, one might say, between the visible that is hidden and the visible that is present.