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Three Hantarex televisions are visible. On each screen, a football player is falling to the ground. The players are wearing jerseys in red, yellow, and blue.

Caryatid (Red, Yellow, Blue)

Paul Pfeiffer

  • Year 2008
  • Edition Edition 3/3 (+ 2 a.p.)
  • Material/Technique 3-channel video projection (color, sound)
  • Length 45''
  • Category Media Art

In the history of art,'caryatid' pillars have the form of women's bodies. PaulPfeiffer'seponymousvideo installation, however, presents the opposite: On three painted-blackmonitors,he presents shortfilmsequences ofsoccer players falling to the ground. In itself, an everyday situation, Pfeiffer has erased both the balland theopponentusing digitalimageprocessing, so that the cause of the falling is no longer apparent. He thus shifts the viewer's attention to this precise moment and presents the scene inslow motion. The colors listed in the title refer to the jerseycolorsof the players.Unlike thefemalestructural elements of architecture,his maleheroesdo not beara burden, but,rather,seemto collapse under it.