the lake

The lake, 2006 (big screen video/audio -installation : 07’08”)
Eight women are standing quietly in the water. There is an everlasting sound of crickets in the background. From time to time the weeping women scratch themselves or they wipe the tears from their faces. They don’t move but they do look angry, sad and rebellious. Their mirror image is reflected but it lives at its own pace. Two worlds come into being and fascinated by their mirror image they stop moving. They’ve put themselves in a position from which escape is no longer possible. The release is there when a mirror image violently hits the real world with its flat hand and the frontier between both worlds is broken. The women hit back and try to damage the reflection. The irritation lessens and the women remain wet and dirty. Resigned they return to their initial position.