Folke G. Matthes
Title: Synchronizität des Alltags
Duration: 1:02min (loop)
Material: Video
Year: 2022
About:
Two couples meet by the sea. Watching the scene, draw each other's attention, admire and leave. What initially looks like a random, spontaneously decided event of everyday life, after a longer look, seems more and more rehearsed, coordinated, even staged. Where are the boundaries of everyday life? When do we attribute it to chance? How individual are our actions, or how quickly do we adapt and assimilate—removing individuality, and yet at the same time flourishing in relationships of any kind?

Bio:
Folke G. Matthes (*1995 in Rostock, Germany) is currently based in Hamburg studying in the Time-based Media class of Jeanne Faust at HfbK Hamburg. She works within the complex tension of childhood memories, their environment and family based context. And also with today's social contexts and structures she is facing as an adult in today's society. The medium her work is mostly realized in is drawing (mostly wax crayons and fine line markers) video and photography. Even though her work field is well chosen the artistic approach is quite spontaneous, almost like an observing intuitive hunter.