Frederick Preuschoft Useita teoksia, 2021

Film has intensely explored the medium photography in several feature films. Photographer personalities, photographic images or photographic actions repeatedly become the subject of cinematic narratives in feature films.

In this exhibition, photography is re-exposed in the feature film. In installative and videographic works, filmic set pieces are detached from their original contexts, collected, reorganized, condensed, combined and transformed into experimental formats. By rearranging and compiling, images are placed in new contexts. From this something new, something third can emerge.

Frederik Preuschoft deals with the reciprocal relationships between film, photography and fine arts. He is particularly interested in the examination of already existing pictorial/visual material (found footage), the different ways in which these images are used, their compositions, and the way in which they are appropriated and reinterpreted.

‘Shoot’
The camera raises, points at the viewer, takes a photo, and lowers again. The work reduces the moment of photographing captured from feature films to these movements. The photographed image motif is hidden from the viewers of the work.

‘Vanishing the light’
The photographic flash burns the image into the material of film. What is used to illuminate the image in photography, amounts to overexposure in the feature film. The image information disappears in the light of the flash. The artwork uses the overexposed images to create a new experience among the film images each other and the exhibition space.

‘Smile’
The smile for the camera can be posed, it can be honestly meant, it can be a result of a spontaneous mood or it can be artificially evoked. The found footage work “Smile!” explores the camera smile in popular films and reassembles the found scenes in a new way.

‘Don’t Shoot’
The defensive posture of the hands illustrates the position of power of the camera. The unspoken agreement between operator and object is broken by the gesture of negation.