Marijke van Warmerdam : time is ticking

It is the first project of the State Hermitage Museum that is entirely dedicated to video art. In her minimalist and plotless looped films Van Warmerdam concentrates on simple objects and situations separating them from their original context and turning into a kind of a thing in itself, noumenon, with the help of endless repetition. The viewer is drawn into a hypnotic process of observation, experience, and, ultimately, of co-creation. The artist works with laconic and seemingly obvious plots, paying attention to the slow and gradual transformation of reality transmitting weightless life pattern in time.