Felix Kiessling

Insolation
video, 37min, Atacama Desert, Chile 2019

video credits:
Production: Marietta Auras
Sound: Alexander Muell / Felix Kiessling
Post: Andres Olivares

Thank you H Residency, Gonzalo Reyes Araos, Luis Ricardo, Roxana,Ara, Turbo, Ximena Moreno, Lydia Korndörfer, Alvaro Loins, Tectum Rental Berlin, Christian Klimpke, Goethe Institut Chile, Christoph Bertrams, Proyeco Saco, Camillo, and the whole Matucana100 team

Installation view @ Trialog / Proyecto Eclipse, Galeria Concreta, Matucana100 Santiago, Chile, 2019
Equipped with, what he calls an experimental 360°camera selfie–device, the artist documented himself getting lost in the Atacama Desert, strolling through the intensity of heat, walking without orientation on our planets curviture. The camera's technical effect triggers what Kiessling calls an inverted self-perception: The moment he jumps up, his position in the frame remains still, everything else moves; The moment he turns, the figure in the frame remains in position while the whole world around him revolves.
No up no down no direction in space.

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