1991
Karthik Pandian and Mathias Poledna
Installation, slide projection 24 slides, 35mm, color, Basis Kodak carousel slide tray
USA 2010
The installation 1991 consists of a series of 24 large-format slides showing a portrait of the model Marike Le Roux. The slide series is based on a 35mm film recorded on a camera tilted by 90° in order to create a high-resolution portrait-format picture. Each of the 24 individual frames from one second of footage is framed as a slide, disassembling the film into its basic elements. In a flipbook like sequence, each slide – the pictures differ only in small details – is shown for an entire day. Projected over a period of several weeks with only a single image presented each day, the entire running time of the piece is exactly one second.
The model’s look and the ethnic appeal of the blouse from Yves Saint Laurent’s famous 1976 spring-summer collection “Opéra-Ballets Russes” generate a historic link to stylistic codes that bring fashion icons from the 1980s and 1990s to mind. The choice of this subject in combination with the otherwise unexplained title (1991 is the year the model was born) aims to raise questions regarding the historicization of media images. (Generali Foundation, Collection)
Karthik Pandian, born in 1981 in Los Angeles, CA, lives and works in Los Angeles.
Mathias Poledna, born in 1965 in Vienna, lives and works in Los Angeles.
Reference
Collection of the Generali Foundation, http://foundation.generali.at/en/collection/artist/poledna-mathiaskarthik-pandian/artwork/1991.html#.WWJLR7R5jnE.