Statement
The three-screen installation “TANGENZIALE” is the project with which Jens Lüstraeten officially finished his studies at the Academy for Visual Arts, Leipzig. It concentrates the thematic and visual approaches of the artist in the combination of night shots of an anonymous infrastructure made of motorway junctions, industrial warehouses, parking places and glimpses of landscapes put on stage almost theatrically, and slow motion travelling shots through these suburbs.
The first impression given by the images –along with the title “TANGENZIALE”- might suggest that the work aimed at describing a specific location, possibly in Italy.
However, the omnipresent orange light of the street lamps and the lack of specification –that could allow an association with a location- as well as the repetition of single images sketch out an interchangeable and anonymous space.
In the interaction with the travelling shots of the video camera -definitely showing the viewer a constant movement that nevertheless lacks a destination, the video installation denies any possible location-bound link and portrays a principle of place, a model of functionality, a construction.