b-view – on the way

B-view stands for a second look at the world, which is perceived differently by different viewers at the same time. B-view also stands for the view of B as Bettina Browar. The artist discovered the video camera for herself in 1997 and found a medium that allows her to collect images almost without limits. The video camera is her constant companion and directs her gaze onto the world. The filmed material is neither edited nor cut.
A cheap flight ticket to Shanghai or Tokyo, or a trip to visit friends in Paris, allows the artist a brief escape from the everyday financial hardships and associated restrictions. In her first solo exhibition, Bettina Browar shows many hours of unedited city videos, unfiltered observations, atmospheric, diary-like essays by a traveller. From this endless video material, she extracts, edits and distorts individual stills. In the frenzy of the manic flood of images, these frozen, abstracted moments refer to the perception and magic of the individual image.