Monika Oechsler: The Chase

London-based German artist Monika Oechsler’s video installations and photographic works have been widely internationally exhibited and she was commissioned alongsode Sarah Miles and George Barber to respond to the theme of Remote Sensing: outlook and observation. The project was devised by South West Media Development Agency, Picture This, Spacex Gallery and Prema and it was funded by the Arts Council of England’s National Touring programme with additional financial support from South West Arts.

In The Chase a male and a female performer encircle each other in a never-ending race, with speed and motion employed to create alternating rhythms of remoteness and fleeting encounters. The work asks the performers to go to their maximum level of physical strength and beyond and the work’s cyclical nature is echoed by the location, an athletics race track, and as the performers sense each other across varying distances the gaze of the camera and the viewer become explicit in the construction of difference and desire.

Remote Sensing: outlook and observation was published in collaboration with SWMDA.

Exhibition:
19 October 2000, LUX Centre, London
Prema Art Centre, Gloucestershire
12 - 28 October 2000, Spacex Gallery, Exeter