Exhibition Opening
17th June 2025, 7pm
Opening hours
18th – 21st June 2025
Wednesday – Friday 3 – 6pm, Saturday 11am – 2pm
In her performative and experimental film practice, Daniela Gutmann
explores how the gaze can emerge not merely as an abstract act of
vision, but as a bodily, affective, and relational gesture. Through
choreographed encounters and filmic stagings, on the gesture of the gaze
investigates how filmmaking itself becomes a performative process—where
movement, camera, and perception intertwine.
At the heart of her work lies the interplay between the body—as a vessel
of gesture, presence, and motion—and the medium of film, whose apparatus
carries a physicality of its own. The gaze, in this context, is not
fixed or unilateral but shifts across bodies, frames, and positions of
power. Seeing becomes an embodied act; the camera, far from neutral,
participates in this gesture.
Film is not approached as a finished image, but as an open, experimental
field—a space where modes of looking, representation, and relational
structures are questioned and renegotiated. Gutmann’s practice
foregrounds a sensuous and critical engagement with the medium, seeking
poetic forms that challenge dominant visual regimes.
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Daniela Gutmann is working in the field of experimental film,
performance and installation.
Her interest lies in the tension between physical conditions, sensual
perception and its alienation.
She works with analogue material, bodies, ice, dust, noodles, latex and
words.
She lives and works in Linz, Austria.
www.gutmanndaniela.com