Oliver Laric, Untitled, 2014-2015. single-channel video (4K, color, sound). 5 min 55 sec. Courtesy of the artist. SeMA Biennale Mediacity 2016 NERIRI KIRURU HARARA. Buk-Seoul Museum of Art. 2016. Photo: Gim Ik Hyun, Hong Cheolki
Oliver Laric, Untitled, 2014-2015. single-channel video (4K, color, sound). 5 min 55 sec. Courtesy of the artist. SeMA Biennale Mediacity 2016 NERIRI KIRURU HARARA. Buk-Seoul Museum of Art. 2016. Photo: Gim Ik Hyun, Hong Cheolki
Untitled is a video that collects and juxtaposes animated clips of ‘morphing’ characters, collating footage from over 100 years of animated films and videos, depicting old men becoming babies, robots turning into cars, snakes transforming into belly dancers, and so forth. Endless transformations among human beings, objects, animals, and machines allure the viewer while crossing the border between past and present, the original and replicas, and human and non-human. Laric’s interest in the malleability of an object or image’s meaning when ferried between cultures and different time periods is complemented in the video by the illustration of things actually changing form, alluding to the unfixed nature of signification.
