Jacqueline Forzelius

Jacqueline Forzelius invites for dinner. Over the screen, the artist places the viewer at a paltry wooden table. Behind it sits an androgynous looking young woman. Nothing indicates the expectation of another visitor. What is implied by the display is enforced by the "host" - the invited guest is already at the table. The seemingly dialogic commentaries turn out to be a monologue in which the young woman complains about the bad behaviour of her invisible guest. However, her own manners do not exactly set an example: She drinks, spills, stirs yoghurt on the table, makes it drip out of her mouth and smears it over her face. The viewer's incidental curiosity turns into a repulsed fascination that is surged by the strange perspective and the direct address, also implying a certain uneasiness: >Does she mean me?< The artist moves on visual, acoustic and emotional levels of human communication systems. She shows the boundaries of this system when she plays out the different plots on those levels against each other.
 

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