Camp David is the US presidency’s holiday residence and retreat. The politically charged location is the starting point for the video installation by artist and photographer Stefan Sulzer in the message salon.
Video images of a wintry landscape flicker across the numerous televisions. The film snippets show an unspectacular forest, rural roads, fenced-in dwellings and a US flag in the wind. Statically filmed excerpts, accompanied by the sounds of the surroundings, convey a meditative observation of the landscape. The televisions set up in the room in different sizes and in various image qualities evoke the expectation of information processed by the media or are reminiscent of the transmission of surveillance cameras.
Camp David is a place that is somewhere. The filmed sequences suggest a documentary content. Is it Camp David? The association that the name evokes is not realised and yet remains latent. Stefan Sulzer poses the question of truth in photography and the relationship between reality and myth.