Cool World

Although hardly a word is spoken in her films, Lilli Kuschel's images of urban environments, traffic structures and human constellations are precise and articulate. Her trained eye has an instant comprehension and tells stories even without words. It is the composition of objects and people in her images that makes the sublime as well as the absurd aspects of normal life evident. Lilli Kuschel's images reflect the fringes of civilization - borders, traffic, communalized nature, media reality, objects being sexually charged... She usually composes her images without a centre point, drawing her viewers' attention to the periphery, which then either becomes, or ironically disturbs, the very notion of a centre. Her thinking focuses on visible surfaces. To rearrange these surfaces on framed photographic or filmic planes, and compositions of planes, to decide on a particularly telling perspective and to communicate that decision by way of a film projection - that is the artist's intellectual and artistic achievement. The field of vision is always amorphous, and everybody always sees everything. What is important, however, is how we see, which part of the field of vision the cinematographer decides to show. Lilli Kuschel's sensibility for the dual character of nature and society makes her images revealing without having to rearrange reality. Her vision itself is revolutionary. (Heinz Emigholz)
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