Samuel Ostermann

Poverty vaccinated you face (2014)

3 min 4 secSingle channel / Digital Video / Colour / Sound

"Collected still pictures and video follow a structural question intending to place the audience in a state of insecurity. The unnamed protagonists return to their empty house and wasted city of their childhood as adults. A chaotic improvised video story of art's place in the technology of the early aughts."

Artist Statement

    Other works by Samuel Ostermann

    The wrapping of airwaves chewing gum has been scanned and reprinted on paper.
    Samuel Ostermann

    La Lucia is the weapon (2011)

    Still images combine into a stranger whole.

    La Lucia is the weapon
    An image is of a cap with the text Vietnam on it is repeated, as is the words Samuel Ostermann puts you in the middle of the art-work.
    Samuel Ostermann

    Upper Hutt is the mind (2011)

    Sculpture, photography, and the artist themself are absorbed into a singular moving image work.

    Upper Hutt is the mind
    A view down onto a child's high-chair with a silver and red plastic ribbon on it.
    Samuel Ostermann

    A Dead Sleep (2005)

    The protagonist wakes to find a make-believe dwelling.

    A Dead Sleep
    Hand-written text reading Image has a line drawn to text reading psychic space.
    Samuel Ostermann

    Anti-Fag and C.I.A in America (2016)

    A collage of signs and symbols; the protagonist moves through a dreamlike meta-narrative.

    Anti-Fag and C.I.A in America
    Samuel Ostermann on CIRCUIT

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