Barometer of Self-Optimization

Klemm’s is happy to present Barometer of Self-Optimization, a video programme featuring works by Nassim L’Ghoul and Stefanie Schwarzwimmer, with screenings at Klemm’s Downstairs. Complementing Sven Johne’s exhibition Eternal 20th Century, the programme explores a wide array of intergenerational conceptual affinities, revisiting and expanding different notions of violence, labour, war, and the uncanny. Nassim L’Ghoul (b. 1997 in Bad Soden) is a media artist who lives and works between Frankfurt am Main and London. L'Ghoul works with 3D animations to generate digital images, which he creates individually for his films. His films do not develop linearly, but rather seem to follow the logic of dreams, in which personal associations and fantasies interweave and flow into one another. The visual landscapes of his films are built from so-called “prepass images,” which are created during the animation of images in the computing process but are normally not intended as the final result. Stefanie Schwarzwimmer (b. 1990 in Linz) is a multimedia artist who lives and works in Berlin. Schwarzwimmer builds virtual spaces that blend memories, media images and pop culture elements and which can be read as satirical and critical barometers of social trends. She often addresses topics such as content creation, self-optimisation, reality TV, consumer culture and questions about visual power dynamics in an image-based society.