Manifestations of Light

In the early 1980s, VA Wölfl began collaborating with the experimental filmmaker Werner Nekes. In Nekes' cult film Uliisses, Wölfl plays the returning Odysseus/Bloom. In the final scene, he shoots Penelope's suitors with the camera, capturing them in the image and then erasing them in the chemical process of the photo lab. Uliisses is considered a liminal film, in which the digital production of images is anticipated using analog means. The artistic work of VA Wölfl and the group Neuer Tanz, which he founded, has developed over a period of more than 50 years precisely at this threshold of the existential transformation of what constitutes an image. His means are photography, performance, but above all a unique spatial art, which he created using the means of dance theatre, light and stage ...