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Line

Using basic resources, Line takes a high-resolution camera to its limits: a person dressed in black paints a black line on a wall, with their back to the camera. Through the lighting conditions, the boundary before the eyes of the viewer gradually dissolves until the person is lost entirely in the work. It manages to outsmart technology using analogue resources of paint brush and paint – the physical border between artist and art is crossed, (wo)man and painting become one.

  • Germany
  • 2008, 2 min
  • Director: Johanna Reich


Johanna Reich

Johanna Reich (1977, Minden, Germany) is a videoartist and studied at Kunstakademie Münster, HfbK Hamburg and Universitat de Barcelona, KHM Köln. She has participated in numerous shows and her works were screened in galleries all over the world. She lives and works in Cologne.