Thorsten Knaub

Sleeping
(Oil on canvas with video projection)

Sleeping (Detail)
Oil on canvas with video projection

Sleeping (Detail)
Oil on canvas with video projection

Sleeping
(Projection on canvas - video documentation)

Sleeping (2003)
Oil on canvas 152 x 101 cm
Video projector, amplifier and speaker
DVD PAL 3:12 min, endless loop
Mini-DV Master

Sleeping combines video and painting to explore the notions of image making.

The video footage shows the artist sleeping within the hinted contours and silhouettes of people and landscape based on Caspar David Friedrich's Kreidefelsen auf Rügen.