Still Lives: Alexander Schellow

Still Lives, Alexander Schellow. Animated Drawing, Black & White, Silent, 3 minutes and 36 seconds, Germany, 2007 Alexander Schellow’s Still Lives, depict a shimmering nocturnal world, populated by anonymous bodies whose presence we sense through the moonlit aura of a ghostly electric fluorescence. By capturing the moment between stillness and life, Schellow’s animated drawings allow us to see this nether world, as one mark nervously shifts into another, as an alien and mournful space. Alexander Schellow recently exhibited work at Steirischer Herbst Gallery, Graz, The Stuttgart Kunstmuseum, Centre Pompidou, Thessaloniki Biennale and at Ute Parduhn Gallery, Düsseldorf. He also recently completed the book work Storyboard published by Merz Academy and Edition Solitude in 2007. He currently lives in Berlin and teaches at the Metropolitan University, London.