No

The video work No is part of an video installation , in which Roos van Geffen investigates the complex layers of shared human experience. Five Faces is a video choreography in four parts,  projected on four black projection screens, hanging at eye level. The spectator can move freely between the screens and see the projection on both sides of the screen. Five, three, two and one faces can be seen in succession. 

In this part, No, two older people shake their heads, no, first a small no, then faster and faster, the head a machine, associations with strict parents, but also with madness and confusion.

Roos van Geffen works in different layers of the tradition of conceptual art and the post-medial paradigm of aesthetics, striving to connect concept and sensual experience – The Word and The Feeling. Referring to the phenomenological theory of perception, the artist  problematises human consciousness and the possibility of sensual introspection, primarily through images of corporeality, the human presence in the world as a way to represent, to co-present, and to think. Within the framework of her aesthetic research, the artist addresses the question – what does it mean to be human? What does it mean to live and die, to feel and to be present in this world and in our body? She researches different ways of revealing humanity itself.