Caduta Libera, 2024

In the video work Caduta Libera, cameras fall out of the sky, as the dizzying change in the moving image evinces. Up becomes down, down becomes up, and the different perspectives rapidly merge. Although the camera is pulled in one direction by the Earth’s gravitational pull, the wind intervenes in the free fall. The rushing images are to a certain extent left to chance; their distortions also tell us about the limits of technology. The loop of a few minutes repeatedly captures individual images of deformed reality. Whether the abstract and painterly motifs are an attempt to get closer to the questions of life, or whether they resemble a standstill, remains open. However the camera turns and falls, in the end it will only leave us with what it has seen last. Friedrich Andreoni captures the living. His works play with the ideas of expectation and event, posing existential questions about the (im)possible.