Falke Pisano’s (born 1978) works are primarily developed from an interest in thinking and the possibilities of language and text in the analysis and development of presentating problems or the development of posing questions. One of their main questions is concerned with the conditions and active principles of modernist sculpture (Martin Luther King Memorials, Barnett Newman, Eduardo Chillida) as well as the understanding of abstraction (Josef Albers). In videos and lecture performances and deliberately not through the objective emulation of sculplture, she attempts to work out the “essence” of her models through the use of language and text constructions.
The two-channel video “Chillida (Forms & Feelings)” (2006) documents the artist’s feeling and reactions to a series of photographs by David Feen showing all the sculptures by the Basque sculptor Chillida. While skimming through the photo book she looks for a relationship between the characteristics of these objects, Chillida’s daughter, and her own dealings with existential questions in addition to her own emotional reaction. She does not appear in the picture herself and remains in the role of the invisible narrator. But especially towards the end of the video she constantly translates her own musings on a visual level by means of a deliberate montage. Falke Pisano thus repairs to the exciting intermediate space between observer and artist, production and reception. The process of perception itself can thus be experienced in her videos and her personal commentary changes one’s own way of seeing.

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