Igor Krenz
Double Disapperance of the Ball in Parallel Space, 1999
0’42”
BETA SP tape transferred to digital format

The screening was part of the show In Silence marking the Wschód New York program 2024/2025 dedicated to dialogues between historical and avant garde voices of Polish art scene and international contemporary positions.

The film was screened together with the sound composition from the 50’s entitled Study on One Cymbal Stroke by Włodzimierz Kotoński  (1925 – 2004).

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The film Double Disappearance of the Ball in Parallel Space stands out among other works in which the artist makes use of his typical laboratory-like environment. The presented situation is quite particular in the way it escapes rational grasp. The featured film-sign is marked for an unbearable incongruence of references, which justifies suspicion of manipulation. By calling into being somewhat of a flat, material gesture, the artist addresses the critique, developed by the creators of structural cinema, laying bare the potential of building illusion of reality characteristic of the film medium.

Igor Krenz (b. 1959 in Katowice) is a visual artist, author of video and photographic works. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw from 1981 until 1986. He was a member of the Azorro group from 2001 through 2010. Since the early 1990s he has been making formally sparse video works, characterized by an absurd sense of humor, usually set in his studio against a white-wall background. Krenz conducts experiments in front of the camera, which, with the use of editing tricks, seem to contradict the basic laws of physics. In this way he shows how film conventions and illusion can manipulate the viewer’s perception and imagination.