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Korpys/Löffler
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Für ein Leben nach dem Tod. Generalaudienz Audienzhalle 15. Dez. 2004, 2006

The video installation For a Life after Death follows the two artists, who were accredited as journalists to the Vatican for a year. In combination with some drawings from them, a portrait of the last months in the life of Pope John Paul II took shape in a form similar to a diary. The selected scenes, on one hand, document the staging of rituals in the Catholic faith, and on the other, the artists point to the church’s implicit economy and politics relating to the media, for which the Pope himself acts as the most important politician and media star in the Vatican. Between these scenes, there are, however, also sequences with flocks of birds in flight, which, in Christian iconography, have since time immemorial symbolized souls ascending into eternity.

Korpys/Löffler
Andree Korpys, * 1966 in Bremen (D), lives and works in Berlin (D)
Markus Löffler, * 1963 in Bremen (D), lives and works in Bremen (D)

Korpys/Löffler, Für ein Leben nach dem Tod, 2006
video (colour, sound)
72:30 min., loop
courtesy Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe
VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2008

Korpys/Löffler, Für ein Leben nach dem Tod. Generalaudienz Petersdom 24. Nov. 2004, 2006
c-Print, 68 x 100 cm
courtesy Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe
VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2008

Korpys/Löffler, Für ein Leben nach dem Tod. Generalaudienz Audienzhalle 15. Dez. 2004, 2006
c-Print, 68 x 100 cm
courtesy Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe
VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2008

Korpys/Löffler, Für ein Leben nach dem Tod. Petrusskulptur Petersdom 12. Okt. 2004, 2006
c-Print, 68 x 100 cm
courtesy Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe
VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2008