In her video films, Karen Yasinsky makes use of the technical efforts involved as a means of insight: the complex techniques of animation are a welcome instrument with which to become more deeply engrossed in the characters. First the artist makes the figures and sets herself and then films them using a portable camera with 24 images to the second – a complex process demanding time and great patience. The actual scenes are then determined successively.
Yasinski designs her figures and sets to be so like puppets and models that they never lose their unreal quality and distance from the viewer. References to fairy tales (especially the Brothers Grimm) and fable are combined with research on the characteristic behaviour of animals, particularly of wolves. In this way,
“Who’s your true love?” stages the mysterious encounter between a man, a woman and a small, eyeless girl with a group of wolf-like animals. The film is being shown as a large screen DVD projection in Studio 2.
