Oliver Michaels | Group Exhibition
Curator: Dalia Levin
June 4, 2005 - Sep. 3, 2005
Train, 2003-2004, video, 13 min.
This video piece depicts a ride on top of a model train ride through various rooms in a domestic space. What appears as a homogenous space through whose walls the train (and the camera) passes turns out to be a fusion of different rooms from multiple houses via simple editing. A closer look reveals the differences. Shot in England, the work generates a journey between economic and social classes, and between different ways of life. It maps out, from a single point of view and without hierarchy, an assortment of lifestyles.
