Omer jeffrey5/3/2023 ![]() In elaborate immersive sets that privilege theĪdopted hometown. Installations have expanded to include sculptures, drawings, and even live performances Locker at the former Stasi Headquarters as Which Is Ripe (2020), shown inside a wardrobe Videos displayed on mobile phones: A Place With virtual reality in The Invisible Hand (2018)Īnd has produced a work consisting of three Whether he’s crisscrossing the minefields of politics, contemporary warfare, or the economy of sex, Fast’s meticulous editing and his use of devices such as repetition, doubling, reenactment, and the loop (which allows for intermittent viewing) all result in narratives that weave together the eyewitness account and the reconstruction, the staged and the documentary, fact and fiction, and open them up to novel ways of storytelling. Images and complex nonlinear narratives that put into question notions of memory and identity. ![]() That Rises Must Converge (2013), to name a few. Many of his works took as launching pads testimonials or interviews that the artist conducted with different individuals: performers of a living history museum in Godville (2005) the funeral directors of Looking Pretty for God (2008) an asylum seeker in Nostalgia (2009) a drone operator for the US military in 5000 Feet Is the Best (2011) or adult film performers in Everything Widely known for his multichannel video installations which splintered the conventions of storytelling, media reportage, and historical representation. Before making his first feature film, Remainder (2015), Omer Fast was already
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