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Christof Nüssli
Under the Skin

Zooming into two books containing mug shots from around 1880–1935, Under the Skin, draws lines from historical events to contemporary developments of control and surveillance.

While describing what she sees in the books, the narrator intertwines subject areas like; how time changes perspectives on historical events, the role of archives as foundations for power and control, the possible brutality of bureaucracy, the current state of facial recognition and personal experience with the law enforcement. Under the Skin questions given structures of power and asks how we can take back the sovereignty of information.

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SCREENINGS

– Memory, Kunstmuseum Olten, Olten (CH), 23.1.–18.4.2021
– Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Louvre, Paris (FR), 28.2.2020 / Haus der Kulturen, Berlin (DE), 28.8.2020
– Videoex, Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich (CH), 25.5.+1.6.2019
– Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Kurzfilmtage Recommendations, 2019

Under the Skin
Video, 16:40min, 2019
Voice over: Lillian Ross-Millard

BIO

Christof Nüssli

Christof Nüssli (*1986) works with (moving) image, text, installation and print graphics. The artist is concerned with power, obtaining and archiving information, state repression, and architecture. He searches for alternative networks, new forms of narration and interstices. He often focuses his attention on incidents that superficially seem banal and meaningless. He shifts these into a new context and thus enables a different kind of reader.

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