Rückenfigur: 365 Days is a Pop Up Installation as an offshoot [duende] from the "solitary series: 365 days." The pop up installation is on Thursday, June 17 8:45pm. Leuty Lifeguard Station, Kew Beach, Toronto, ON.

"'solitary series: 365 days" is a durational meditation and documentation of the solitary standing at the shoreline of Lake Ontario each morning during the first year of the pandemic (2020-2021).

The pop up installation "Rückenfigur: 365 Days" is a live projected screening of the daily photographs onto the Leuty Lifeguard Station. The event duration is 1 hour. The pop up will also be presented in various locations. It includes music and sound designed by Edward St. Moritz.

When I (like all of us in different ways) was sequestered because of the COVID lockdown I became curious about how being solitary created meaning. My interest turned to Caspar David Friedrich’s 1818 "Wanderer above the Sea of Fog" and his compositional placing of his subject’s back towards the observer known as Rückenfigur. The artistic device or pictorial characteristic is borrowed from the German term for “a turned figure.” The figurative play creates an illusion of space, an imagined yet unseen and undisclosed perspective, and a witnessing of self —watching like an elusive shadow —on the perilous edge at a moment of transition or profound social change. Along with my daily photograph, I retrieved a stone from the water’s edge to mark the day. The stones of exception (a small memorial for each day of the legislated "state of exception/emergency”) became like a found poem, a metaphor for the solitary yet collective estrangement we have found ourselves." The multimedia installation of the :solitary series: 365 days" includes the digital loop of photographs, video documentation of the shoreline, and 365 stones.

The work is an exploration and expression of presence and memory as a counter memorial (a document) of our|selves as solitary beings.

Presented by Sorouja Moll
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Music and Sound by Edward St. Moritz
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