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‘Force II & III’ combined at the ‘Lewis Glucksman Gallery’ in
Cork, Ireland |
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'Force'
is a video installation that Peter Bogers has been presenting since
1996 in a continuously changing form. The origin is a fragile power-play
between a clenched fist and a cupped hand. The hand and the fist are
slowly rotating together and one after the other either the hand or
the fist trembles in a mechanical way. Just when the quivering changes
from the hand to the fist or vice versa, a strong flashlight is triggered
off and lights up the screen. The slight ticking sound of the flashlight
is heavily amplified.
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two video installations by Peter Bogers |
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Force II (1996) |
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Force III (2001) |
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In 2001 Bogers made ’Force III’. Thematically related to ’Force
II’ this new work uses the same external flashlight, lightning up
the video-screen similar to the way it was used in Force II. The images
are different though: On a patch of grass
we can see a man fighting/playing with a boy (father and son) in
extreme slow-motion. Every time the flashlight is triggered a new
scene shows up, confronting the viewer with a new scene, in which
the dividing line between playing and having a grim struggle is very
thin and hard to distinguish. The sound of the flashlight is
reduced to a slight electronic tick. |
