Reynold Reynolds

When traumas and alienation emerge from behind the perfect veneer of TV soaps and cinematic romances, their peaceful, smooth-running idyll turns into catastrophe. The film and video artist Reynold Reynolds uses his experience as a film theorist in order to visualise this collision between the idealised cliché and its opposite in his videos and installations. The language and methods of the cinema are analytical instruments in his work; in a narrative collage, for example, the inhabitants scarcely seem to notice that their house is burning, as they are so caught up in their own emotional states. In “Burn”, the people resemble prisoners facing a life sentence with no hope of reprieve, monotonously going about their everyday business quite unaware of the approaching disaster. In Studio 2, Reynold Reynolds will present his most recent project; an installation entitled “Town Map”. A double projection with surprising sound effects, it was produced during his stay at Künstlerhaus Bethanien.