Gloria, 2008 (left)
HD film, color, stereo sound
Duration: 5:00 minutes

The film is set in a park in Rio de Janeiro, designed in the style of French garden architecture with fountains, statues and benches. The subtitled narration imagines a possible film sequence that could be realised in the park depicting Oscar Niemeyer and Manuel de Oliveira sitting together on one of the benches.

Taipei, 2000 / 2006 (right)
HD video, 16 / 9 color, sound (multilingual subtitles) 
Duration: 9 minutes

The film takes place in a public park in the Taiwanese metropolis Taipei. The open-air theatre of the park with its red benches was the location of the last scene of Tsai Ming-Liang’s 1995 film "Vive l'amour." This marks the starting point of the artist's observations of this urban location, as it begins to rain heavily.

Photo © Carsten Eisfeld