Bernd Oppl - Expert Sleepers
Eröffnung: 25.01, 17.30 Uhr; Ausstellung bis 3.3.2024 Boulevard Dondukov 34, 1000 Sofia, Bulgarien
Spaces seemingly built for humans, a strangely familiar habitat, but one devoid of reality, solid and eerie at the same time. Bernd Oppl’s opens up to a world abandoned by humans, where screens are the only living presences. His camera quietly traverses various environments, taking us to through the anxiety of an endlessly resuming i-phone screen, the calming oceans projected on a TV monitor, the poetry of karaoke subtitles or the fast running galaxies of screen-savers. Screens steer us through space and psychological states, indeed they seem to hold space and perception together. Turn them off and our 3D world, as well as our minds, might well dissolve back into cosmic dust.
In one of the rooms a mattress with a pillow and a bed cover, reminds us we are “expert sleepers” – we dream our reality, and technology continues the dream for us. Wherever the missing humans from Oppl’s worlds are, screens and machines still shape space in the scale and ergonomy of human bodies, like the vestige of long departed gods.
Dessislava Dimova
