Posing Time
Video installation
2000

Posing Time is a video installation where animated portraits are being projected on small canvases with three videoprojectors. When taking these portraits each model has been asked to sit in a room for one hour with a film camera in front of him/her. The photographer has been sitting in an other room with a long cable release and has exposed one frame every two seconds. Posing Time consists of nine portraits.

The presence of the camera is obvious and posing is a common attitude towards it. Once in a while the pose is being forgotten and the models drift away into their own thoughts. They wake up again only to realize the persistent presence of the camera. The play between presence and absence was one of the first themes in Posing time. Of Control and the loosing of control (posing) became an other.

Time is an obvious theme in Posing Time. The picture format and lighting qualities refer to the tradition of portraiture. Traditionally portraits have been single images and in photography also single moments. Also the looking at the images has had a momentenious quality. In Posing Time each portrait consists of over a thousand images and each portrait has a duration. Single images can still be seen, but they appear so quickly that it is impossible to get a hold of them. Portraits seem to be telling something about identities, but this telling is vague. It is even hard to tell who´s identity one is thinking about. Still this feeling of identity seems to be close, but like the images it slips through our hands.