AM ENDE

The triptych Fresque Biographique - Ich und Double - Am Ende is a video-collage by Hanna Schygulla. The work consists of a series of images that alternate in a tableau vivant that represents details from her life, her dreams, her experiences and her fears. Schygulla opens up before her lens and creates her self-portrait against a historical setting, using narrative, recitation and performance as her basic means. In Me and My Double, she tries to memorize a passage from the novel of the same title by the Polish author Witold Gombrowicz: “Amours des premiers jours, je suis a toi de nouveau.” The descriptions of her memories and dreams are interwoven with history in a philosophical mood, and denote her quest. The artist creates an environment through which she keeps her memory and dreams alive, and she states, flat out: “Death gives life meaning.” The journey acquires meaning and they give meaning to each other.