In katja Lohers Installation Floating Rendezvous, the images are projected on three white balloons hang from the ceiling.
The characters of floating Rendezvous are a pair of lovers who live underwater, in a world where gravity is absent. The technique employed in this work is in a certain sense unique. Part of the project was filmed under water, in the swimming pool of the Basel Hilton. In the final Loher brings together these images with scenes shot on the surface, in the real world.
The couple in Floating Rendezvous sits on a floating table, in floating chairs. In their world, all is flow and change literally.
Objects drift out of their grip, and the lovers the lovers them selves are constantly forced to swim up to the surface for a breath of fresh air. Sliding between the physical world and the world of the imagination, they ferry endlessly back and forth from one reality to another from dream to life and back again desiring the impossible and, at the same time, recognizing the impossibility of their desires.
Maria Kolosteleva