Elena Helfrecht

The Circle

(2024)


Video installation, 2021
Single-channel, 8:00 min. loop.

Assistance: Teri Varhol, Marvin Best, Samantha Evans.



The video combines the movement of maggots in a dead bird with a human pulse, accompanied by a recording of my own heartbeat.

Installation view from In Search of Identity at Künstlerhaus Dortmund, curated by Atelier Amore, 2021. Projected in front of the walled-up entrance to the largest air-raid shelter in the world.

(Documentation by Laila Schubert)