Schwere Wolken

photo animated audio/video installation, FHD, 9:16 format, 15:20 min, Hubert Blanz, 2019

Project description

For his audio/video installation Schwere Wolken [Heavy Clouds], Hubert Blanz animated a large number of photographs showing scaffolding tarpaulins on construction sites. He collected the images used for this project over a period of seven years in various cities and countries. The predominantly white fabric surfaces were digitally woven into long lengths of fabric using computer technology and then set in motion in a dynamic, continuous film sequence.

In an urban context, the covered façades refer to the dynamic process of renewal and transformation of urban structures. The title Schwere Wolken [Heavy Clouds] also addresses the immediate state of change in the atmosphere through the composition of the soundtrack. It is getting dark. The wind picks up. A storm or rain may follow. Perhaps the sun will shine through the thick clouds again. A process of renewal is underway, with what is to come always remaining hidden behind the curtain.