Zilla Leutenegger

Ideal Idaho



Preview Friday 6. June 2003, 7pm - 9pm
Exhibition 7 June - 26 July 2003
Opening hours Wed - Fri 1pm - 7pm, Sat 1pm - 6pm



The video installation "ideal idaho" was shown for the first time in spring, in the group exhibition "Urban Diaries - Young Swiss Art", Alcal‡ 31, Madrid, and is now forming the centre of the gallery exhibition.

A person is rocking from one leg to the other, standing, sitting, lying, between a lamp, a television, a shoe, a mobile phone and a book, objects that are dispersed at the end of a bed. The person is the artist herself, as in all of her pieces, and she is hardly bigger than the book on which she is sitting in one of the images. The viewer does not know what she is waiting for, and sometimes she seems bored, sometimes absorbed in a world of thoughts.

The video installation "ideal idaho", consists of 3 monitors, a video projection, and a slide projection, and via the reversed proportions it displaces the private space of a bedroom into a parallel world, in which the artist is ÒembeddedÓ. The four moving pictures show different views of this world. Time passes by, but nothing happens. The absence of an event, is underlined by short sound loops that are unspectacularly conducting the four situations.

Zilla Leutenegger's pieces are formed by the curiosity of what oneÕs own world look like, when seen from a different perspective. Through the distortions of size Leutenegger calls into mind the memories of childhood, plays with the longing for Òthe great worldÓ, and thereby opens up for a world of wishes, dreams, and memories.