Ghosts Work group Crossmedia Installation

First shown 2024 | UdK Berlin: Crossmedia Installation, 9-channel video on analog TV’s, steel kennel, paintings, texts, photographs, objects, construction rubble, foliage, min. 650 x 400 cm, variable


About

„How to speak unspeakable? How to describe indescribable? – A ghost is a ghost until someone sees it.“ – Ghosts observes mass killings, abuse and existence of Spanish hunting dogs and is a comprehensive complex for artistic examination of human-animal studies. The installation asks for perspectives of victims and viewers, confronts with questions about being locked up and locked out – appears as bridge between art and documentation. Due to lack of translation of experienced atmospheric phenomena, it is supplemented by experimental paintings, objects and texts, based on archive and research. It openes possibilities to expand space and atmosphere in a museographic character. A key visual is interplay of light and shadow such as views from inside and outside of rooms, buildings and surroundings as juxtaposition. Ghosts was created in close cooperation with rescue centers and independent observation. The camera provides unflinching insights into kennels, mostly looped, to illustrate state of suspension. The view is simultaneously dogs' perspective through bars, a intangible world, yet one they still yearn for. The story, deliberately left unspoken.

Installation views, 2024, UdK Berlin, Institut für transmediale Gestaltung

Research – Archive excerpt


From the photography archive, 2021-2023, Canarian Islands and Andalusia: Documentation of rescue facilities and places of dogs killings and abuse.

Die Augen wie Wachen aus Bronze
Der Wind war sehr stark als er wehte
Der Sand war sehr trocken in ihm
Wir zählen es drei Mal am Tag
Dein Schlaf ist das Zittern der Lieder
Wäre es schlimm wärst du blind
Was hat dein Herz gesehen bis gestern
Wäre es gut wärst du blind
Die Augen wie Wachen aus Bronze
— Norman Maýn, GHOSTS

Video excerpts


Trailer mono short film version and multichannel example, (only 6 channel preview looped)

Selected Works


Untitled (Abades)

2025, Inkjet print, graphite, ink, soot, textiles on matte fibre paper, 36.8 x 28 cm, framed, unique

2025, Wooden boards, pigment print, ash, soot, graphite, lacquer, 10 × 10 cm, unique

Untitled

Untitled

2024, Lacquer, ink, water, pigments on canvas, 35.5 × 50 cm

Untitled

2024, Paper, ink, water, lacquer, spraypaint, pigments, nature materials on canvas, 70 × 100 cm, unique

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