La Perspective Curieuse

“La Perspective Curieuse” fits seamlessly with Langkamp’s research in which his camera plays the leading role.
The artist is interested in the possibilities and limitations of the camera in relation to space. How does the camera register the room? What is the scope of the medium’s framework? How does the camera distort our perspective on reality?
Langkamp performs playful experiments that result in short video sketches. These sketches form the basis of installations with which he literally pulls his video work into space. The surprising result makes us look at our surroundings again with a fresh look.

In this kinetic video sculpture, he literally draws the field of vision of the camera into space. Two fabric corners represent the charted field of view of the camera. The camera is constantly moving, driven by mechanical means, which constantly changes its field of vision towards the wall. This walk of perception becomes visible because the surface grows (or reduces) with the field of vision.
The corners of the fabric frame, stretched on roller blinds, are pulled outwards via threads. The movements are paired with each other, so that “the area” remains optically as large as the field of vision of the camera.
The result is two-fold; on the one hand, the built mechanism is shown in which clearly all movements take place; camera, wires and plane. On the other hand, the generated image that can be seen live, on an external monitor, shows the filmed “plane” as unchanged in size.
Langkamp makes the invisible visible in this wonderful spectacle; the two-dimensional interface of the three-dimensional perspective.