Rooftops

Lisa Truttmann

Lisa Truttmann

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Rooftops

Video installation, 2017

Video installation, 2017

Video loop, 22:41 min.
Window rear projection
T/abor Vienna, AT



The title of the piece is a literal description of its ­content: the camera meanders from rooftop to rooftop, with architecture dissolving into abstract forms and structures. Animated and composed into a single ­continuous shot, the path takes us through the sky, scraping and tilting along Shanghai’s iconic high-rise buildings. Rooftops was presented in a collaborative exhibition titled Related Movements.

Exhibition text
In their projections, Frank Hagen, Renate Mihatsch, and Lisa Truttmann edit and animate cinematic excerpts of urban spaces and coastal regions. They project these images outward, through the windows onto Vienna’s Taborstraße, where they interact—not only with each other, but also with the reflections of the city’s nighttime activity. This way, both the physical world and the underlying structures of Istanbul’s harbor, the islands of Victoria, the coast of Le Havre, and the heights of Shanghai are simultaneously brought into question on a single plane of projection.


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Exhibitions
2018
Blickle Archive Series #27: Lisa Truttmann, Belvedere 21, Vienna, AT
2017
Related Movements
window rear projections by Frank Hagen, Renate Mihatsch, Lisa Truttmann
T/abor Vienna, AT
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Shanghai, China, 2015
Shot during a BKA studio residency program