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`gems´ is all about communication and understanding within a very diverse and multiethnic society. It is a public art project that aspires to bring people together through opening up the precious parts within their lives and environments, and by creating a context of shared visions among many individuals. Revealing the hidden gems beyond the day-to-day facade of life in a thriving city or a secluded village will encourage a different point of view on reality - a quiet and poetic glimpse into the structures of a society that tends to look for the extreme.
The artist Oliver Hein is collaborating with a group of students from the Fine Arts Department of Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, to match the breadth of the idea by working on this project as a team. The students take an active part in the research, the shooting of the video footage, site photographs and editing. To get the best images from the visits to local residents, issues like the setting, lighting or camera position will be considered and discussed in workshops and before each visit. This will result in a great variety of ideas, a wide range of approaches to each encounter and many different ways of editing the footage into a coherent series of individual video clips, displayed in the glass cube of the sculpture.
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