A Million Keys

Public Image

In their video installations, Andree Korpys and Markus Loffler undermine the staging of media events by shifting the focus to periphery, seemingly insignificant moments. They reveal the logic and construction of intensely charged displays of power, such as political press conferences, economic summits, and diplomatic visits, by documenting the trivial details of these settings. Their videos of traffic, bored onlookers, bodyguards, circling helicopters, and grass accentuate the fabrication and transience of official presentation. The structure housing their work built inside Secession’s gallery, pictured above, is emblematic of their overarching mission to make the exterior a focal point, and by doing so, deflate the mesmerizing hold of the mass media’s carefully scripted images.

View Korpys/Loffler’s current show at Secession