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2013 - Film & Video (Film & Video)

Joachim Koester

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With a keen interest in the stranger corners of the long human story, and a persistent interest in the supernatural, the transcendent, and the psychedelic, Joachim Koester’s work follows the artists own undying interest in physical and psychological limits. While exploration was a matter of crossing geographies before the 19th century, the 20th century brought the mental exploration of our unconscious, hastened by the discovery of psychoanalysis. Koester is interested in visualizing specific events—those forgotten, overlooked, or suppressed by the official historical record—in order to reintroduce them into collective memory. Using 16mm documentary films, photographic series or books, his work transforms stories into images and vice versa, appearing as a quest for the invisible and the vanishing.

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• supernatural.n.01
• cryptic.s.01
• psychological.s.01
• metaphysical.a.01
• psychoanalysis.n.01
• invisibility.n.01
• architecture in art
• contemporary conceptualism
• dreams / altered states of consciousness
• film/video
• danish
• video artists
• monochrome