GARAGE: Lucas Ajemian - The Haunt, Phase 1

Lucas Ajemian

"The Haunt, Phase 1" is an video installation. During the past years, Lucas Ajemian has collected several cut-outs from American newspapers, referring to contemporary events. Calling to mind a space somewhere between censorship and slander in the media distribution of information, parts of the images are left untouched while the surrounding context is covered over in black ink. With the assistance of commercial motion graphics designers, The Lifelong Friendship Society and basic 3-D applications, Ajemian has animated different cut-outs and composed a grotesque picture of a surreal violent space. Formally, the different events and fragmented images co-exist in a complex, multilayered and superimposed space. The 3D-design draws out nuances between static and moving forms and time-based media versus "media based time". The practice shows Lucas Ajemian's great interest in media overlap where new perceptual forms occur.

The delicate crossings, borderlines and combinations of individual and collective authorship are the material of Lucas Ajemian's work. His performances, film installations, drawings and sculptures are based on the integration, revision and de-articulation of found sources. Ajemian works with dysfunctions, conflicts, false starts and voids as an ironic and humorous critique of political and social behavior.