KAREL DOING INE LAMERS MELS VAN ZUTPHEN MIRJAM SOMERS
Ine Lamers is an artist who works with both photography and video installations. Her works are atmospheric statements about people in their surroundings. For years Ine has felt passionately connected to Russia and the Baltic countries. In her films, where she works with actors and non-actors, it is in the first place the atmosphere that creates a strange distance with the presented situation, meditative, beautiful and at the same time uncomfortable, disturbing. A distance that keeps her work strongly connected to visual art. Ine’s work Ustala is now showing in Museum Boijmans until may. Within the project KIMM Ine created ‘White Nights’.
White Nights 2010, 8’’ – A park at the Wolga river forms the stage for a series of meetings
between a couple of young women and a single man. The encounters in the summer morning
light are filled with ambiguity and suspense. Incongruous gestures and body movements mingle
with fragmented gazes thus suggesting a complex network of relations and histories.
By the indefinite actions, and cinematographic manipulations , the film blends reality with dream
perception. In stills and moving imagery and by temporal intervals a multiple intrigue is unfurled.
NOT SHE 2005, 45’‘ starring Thekla Reuten – Tells the story of Mimi, an actress, or rather, a
woman who thinks she is an actress. Mimi dwells in a room that looks like a backstage area.
There are props, set-elements, costumes and lamps. We watch her as she starts acting,
touching the props, switching on the lights and dressing herself up. Mimi recites and quotes
scenes from classical films, trying to make us believe that for an instant she is someone else,
someone like Monica Vitti, or Delphine Seyrig or Gena Rowlands. Her acting is somewhat
bizarre, for she poses and plays her parts as if she is facing an audience or a camera, yet she is
completely alone.
Artists Talk 16.03 8pm – Maya Deren 1917 – 1961 was an American avant-garde
filmmaker and a feminist film theorist of the 1940s and 1950s. Deren was also a choreographer,
dancer, poet, writer and photographer. Maya Deren’s films have been an important source of
inspiration for Ine Lamers’ work. In her artists talk she will show ‘Meshes of the afternoon’ 1943
and ‘At Land’ 1944.
