Home/Nome is a fascinating project by Lars Preisser comprising Hi8 home videos, hand drawn SNES Mario Paint animation, drawings, HD video which deals with the notion of domesticity, gentrification, space, and memory. As the artist writes,
The video installation HOME NOME by Lars Preisser consists of a film that shows the making of an exhibition as well as the exhibition pieces that can be seen in this video. Lars Preisser deals thematically with the apartment in which he grew up in Berlin in the '90s and which became a gallery for contemporary art in the course of gentrification. In minimalist animations painstakingly created on old Super Nintendo consoles from that time, the artist recalls various incidents from that period. Old home videos serve him as a template for the interiors of that time, which he now traces on the antiquated 16-bit game console and the game Mario Paint. [...]
Lars Preisser, Home/Nome, installation shot, 2019-2021.
Lars Preisser (b. 1984) is an interdisciplinary artist working with textiles, film and drawing. Preisser lives and works in Berlin.
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