Het beademen van de beeldbuis

'Boezem's face appears on the screen, stares at the viewer, and begins to breathe on the picture tube. After some time passes, the image begins to blur through the moisture deposited and the artist disappears from sight for several moments. While the vapour clears Boezem keeps his gaze directed on the camera, motionless, until his face is again clearly visible. With his own breath the artist makes himself invisible as an object, with the intention of creating a space that is not defined by a concrete image. The concept for the film follows naturally from 'Signing the Sky above Amsterdam', 1969, in which the fixedness of the artwork in an image which remains perceptible is already being dissolved during the process by which it comes into existence. The time bet… Read more...