In Dream I: [Matrix], visitors step into a fragmented reality, drifting between presence and illusion. A two-channel video montage is at the center of the installation, dissolving the boundary between screen and space. A newly produced triptych and an enigmatic sound box offer new entries into the story. The scene is part of the multimedia opera [After Her Destruction], in which the protagonist Girl uses a computer program to travel through her mind. In the fleeting encounter with two strangers, a conversation unfolds in a salon-like setting, reminiscent of a chamber play.
Dream I: [Matrix] Installation
Exhibition duration: 08.05. – 28.06.2025
‘not yet yours to imagine’ was a duo show at DAS WEISSE HAUS presenting the works Buoyant Force by Henna-Riikka Halonen and Dream I: [Matrix] by Lila-Zoé Krauß
In the installation at DAS WEISSE HAUS, visitors entered a re-enactment of the scene in the video. In addition to two large-format video walls, a triptych, an LED sign, and a sound object were installed. The individual elements open up new approaches to the content of the video and spatially integrate visitors into the narrative.
‘Dream I: [Matrix]’ is a scene of the multimedia opera [After her Destruction]. It takes place in a salon-like setting, in which time doesn’t seem to exist and different social rules apply. It is a place, in which people like the Mysterious Lady without Name (Linda Elsner) and Lover (Sibylle Peters), that tend to get in trouble in the “real world”, seek refuge. Here music can be played from the Jukebox, they dance and drink, gender norms are defied and socalled normailty doesn’t exist. The place holds traces of those who passed through. For instance a painting on the wall (a copy of ‘There is a hole inside all of us’ by Frieda Toranzo Jäger) or a book titled ‘Matrix: Mutations of the 21st Century’
Videomontage
Lila-Zoé Krauß
[After her Destruction], chapter: Dream I: [Matrix] 2024
Camera: Helena Wittmann
2 channel videomontage, 11′
2.1 sound, Color
Dimensions variable
Matrix Memory Collection
Lila-Zoé Krauß
Matrix Memory Collection, 2025
Vintage wallbox, new electronic wiring
10 audio recordings / changeable
35,5×40,5×12 cm
13,97×15,94×4,72 inches
The ‘Matrix Memory Collection’ is a sound sculpture that was produced for the ‘not yet yours to imagine’ duo show at DAS WEISSE HAUS. In collaboration with Jens Vetter, an old wallbox was rewired so that 10 audio recordings could be played via the buttons. As part of the installation, the object served as a link between the video and the exhibition space. The recordings were audio diary-style voice recordings of the Mysterious Lady Without a Name. In them, she talks about why she keeps returning to this place, about loneliness, and what people project onto her when she is on stage.
Dream I: [Matrix] Tryptich
Allegory of the Self, 2025
Acrylic, linoleum ink and fabric on canvas
200 x 130 cm
78,74×51,18 inches
Empire of the Senseless, 2025
Acrylic and linoleum ink on canvas
200 x 130 cm
78,74×51,18 inches
The Mysterious Lady & Lover, 2025
Acrylic, linoleum ink and fabric on canvas
200 x 130 cm
78,74×51,18 inches