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Juul Kraijer

Wenn du der Träumer bist, bin ich dein Traum

Galerie Les filles du calvaire, Paris

Artist
Juul Kraijer
Title
Wenn du der Träumer bist, bin ich dein Traum
Year
2022
Duration
4 min 18 s
Format & Technical

Single channel video

  • Juul Kraijer. Wenn du der Träumer bist, bin ich der Traum, 2022. Single channel video, without sound. 4:18 min. loop. Courtesy Les filles du calvaire.

The 4 minute silent video work Wenn du der Träumer bist, bin ich dein Traum consists of a close-up of the face of a young woman, her gaze turned inward. Every now and then a bumblebee escapes from her mouth like a slip of the tongue, to fly back into the frame a while later and reenter her mouth. Her serene expression doesn’t change and we hardly see what happens, wonder if we really did see what we saw.

For this work a VFX bumblebee has been created by Canadian CGI expert Greg Marshall.

Like the snake, the bumblebee is seen as a liminal creature. In Celtic mythology, it is a messenger between our world and the spirit realm.

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