Fear people inside red glow outside threat safe niko hendrickx art

Duration: 1’43”

The theme is a topical phenomenon: man feels safe and sound indoors and is very reluctant to venture out into the danger zone outside. All activity is carried out indoors; from outside a threatening, mysterious red fog blows in.

In the series ‘Modern Cavemen’ three rooms are created, using Cinema4D. In each room three camera vantage points have been selected for paintings. The common element in the different works is a video: ‘scary smileys’ fly through space. (2009-2010)

The sound is normanhoffman‘s.

Painting of a modern caveman with long hair and beard with a red glow coming from outside. — The Modern Caveman: The Caveman

Painting of a golden living room with a man in it looking at a screen in failure. — The Modern Caveman: Golden Cage View

Painting of a man with real long hair and beard looking at porn. — The Modern Caveman: Porn View

Painting of a safety camera looking at a traffic jam that occors inside a building. — Indoor Trafficjam: Safety Camera View

Painting from the view of a car driver waiting in an indoor traffic jam. — Indoor Traffic jam: Driver View

Painting through the eyes of a mouse inside a traffic jam where people are waiting outside their cars. — Indoor Trafficjam: Mouse View

Painting of an outside view looking at people inside a room looking at the news. — The News: Outside View

Painting of anxious people looking at the news with Martine Tanghe. — The News: Inside View

Painting with anxious people inside wiht a red glow from the outside. — The News: Martine’s View

Project exhibition C-TAKT Neerpelt (2012)

For this exhibition a fourth, ‘real’ scene was built, copying exactly the same atmosphere as the 3D works.

This fourth scene is the exhibition room itself, in which the visitor is an extra: he is inside it, and from outside the same threatening fog as seen in the paintings and the video blows in. The video was played with sound, and red light and smoke created the threatening atmosphere. By the entrance visitors found ‘scary smileys’.

In the room three cameras filmed the action, the images of which could be seen on flat screen TVs outside the room.