Vanishing Point, 2024
100 x 100 cm
Video and sound
Vanishing Point connects the death of country singer Luke Bell and Edward Hopper’s paintings of the American paysage. Through a translation of Hopper’s painting Gas and Bell’s place of death, a scene unfolds that serves as a projection of the artist’s own thoughts about loneliness, memory and myth. Evoking an embodied sense of absence, a double movement, closing in and distancing itself simultaneously. In Bell’s last interview before disappearing from the public limelight due to his struggles with bipolar disorder, one of his replies linger: “I had to work really hard for a long time to get anywhere…”