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Anke Stäcker
The uncertain light of afternoons
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Video, 1.46min, 2025
This video imagines the unnameable fears of childhood when you are alone at home, shadows creep up to windows, palpable silence surrounds you and a ray of afternoon sunlight breaks through clouds and creates a strange pattern on the wall…
A line in a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke evoked a childhood nightmare in which the familiar and comforting became scary:
“And reflected on the faded wallpaper now, the uncertain light of childhood afternoons when you were so afraid.”
The setting of the work is inspired by the many novels I read when I was young which were set in mansions where the houses themselves became a character in the plot.
A line in a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke evoked a childhood nightmare in which the familiar and comforting became scary:
“And reflected on the faded wallpaper now, the uncertain light of childhood afternoons when you were so afraid.”
The setting of the work is inspired by the many novels I read when I was young which were set in mansions where the houses themselves became a character in the plot.
Anke Stäcker is a photo media artist who lives and works in Sydney. In her practice she uses visual storytelling to examine psychologies and histories of the urban environment. Stäcker grew up in Hamburg, Germany and immigrated to Australia in 1988. She has a Master of Fine Art from the Sydney College of the Arts and a BA, Media Arts from RMIT.
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