OM BORI
Om Bori *born in Berlin.
Bori graduated from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts (MA in Intermedia Studies) and the Berlin University of Arts (Meisterschülerin, Fine Arts).
She is represented by the Art of Future platform, a member of the Studio of Young Artists’ Association in Budapest and the Saloon Network in Berlin.
Bori´s work combines still and moving images with narratives from different genres, from memoir to documentary to song and tale. It explores the intersection of visual and verbal exposition by means of videos, animations, drawings, objects, rhythms, and algorithms. Point of departure are studies of a milieu, place or landscape and the human and nonhuman relations enfolding therein. Conceptually, her art directs attention to how structural forces steer individual and collective lives, and how the individual and the collective attempt to resist such structural determination, whether through labour, hope, love, migration or madness.
DER APPARAT
2020
2-channel video installation
5:25
Diagnostic theories of paranoid schizophrenia usually focus on pathological aspects, i.e. the suffering and its psychological and social consequences. Expanding on an alternative perspective, this work approaches the illness as a radical form of defence mechanism. When mentally unmanageable experiences defy repression to the unconscious parts of mind, the conscious self begins to dissolve itself as a coherent whole, leading the mental and cognitive fragmentation characteristic of the disease. When the centre cannot hold, trauma is made bearable by the loss of inner coherence, and, ultimately, of the inner self. In this two-channel video installation, the defence mechanism of schizophrenic dissolution is transferred into a visual and narrative form. The work combines two intertwining elements with each other: a sequence reproduced from a VHS cassette showing a woman in a red shirt at a party, the only recording of a close relative with schizophrenia; and an unspecified apparatus inspired by introspective descriptions of schizophrenic persons trying to explain the state of inner dissolution.
3,267 FOOTSTEPS
2014
10:00
video (animation)
“I trace my quotidian commute between my home, my school and my grandmother’s place in the city of Budapest by way of an algorithm for stereoscopic street imaging. This form of datafied subjectivity is contrasted with a three-part interview I conducted with denizens of a bar about stories relating to their lives and places in Budapest.” –Om Bori
