Clown

In the threechannel film installation Clown 2005 the absurd and slightly uncanny figure of a clown emerges from the impenetrable lushness of the Brazilian jungle His red nose contrasts with the green forest Starting from the righthand side he passes through all three screens stumbling towards us following a streamlet before finally disappearing back into the jungle As often in Rosefeldts work this films protagonist is an uncommunicative selfabsorbed monad a wanderer in a world he either does not understand or caught up in activities required by the closed circuit of his solecistic madcap logic wishes to ignore As the essence of absurdity this film work can be read as a metaphor for modern mans alienation from nature and an epilogue to Rosefeldts Trilogy of Failure