Notting Hill, 1999, 250 x 170 x 50 cm textil kov, ventilátory, projekce, socha adolescentního diváka.
The Notting Hill installation is a realistic response to Roger Michell’s romantic film starring Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant. In the artist’s opinion, the idea of an “average” young man falling in love with a Hollywood superstar in the hope that she might return his love is naive and, at the very least, rather unlikely.
This version of the relationship between a woman and a man consists of two objects. One is a sculpture of an ordinary young man in jeans and a knitted sweater. He simply stares passively, chin drooping, at the glowing, unattainable “goddess” before him. He sits alone in the cinema among empty seats, and in fact he cannot be seen very much because the auditorium is dark. A viewer at the show could easily miss him and inadvertently stumble upon him.
The second object is, of course, the face of the actress coming directly from the projection screen levitating above the young man. Her face, brimming with beauty, sends optimism in the form of smiles somewhere outside the auditorium. She does not register the audience at all, but overlooks them with her eyes formed by two synchronized fans. Her gaze, in the form of wind, almost physically falls directly on the overlooked spectator in the auditorium.
Notting Hill, 1999, 250 x 170 x 50 cm textil kov, ventilátory, projekce, socha adolescentního diváka.
