For over 10 years, Matthias Gubler has been exploring the media of video, installations and interventions with a socio-political context in his artistic practice. He is concerned with making the fragility of the world perceptible, and with aisthesis itself.

Looking at Gubler’s work, one quickly notices that time, patience and a lot of attention are demanded from the viewer in order to approach the subject matter. A central aspect of his work is the concept of the endless loop as a video loop, which allows a whole spectrum of feelings to be expressed. Through the supposed recurrence of the same, we can recognize the beauty of a moment over and over again. Thus, the magic of a moment can be captured in all its fragility.

The origin of the video loop goes back to the beginnings of cinema, where the miracle drum, the zoetrope and the phenakistiscope were used. This involved spinning a cardboard wheel rapidly to animate drawings at twelve frames per revolution. Edward Muybridge analyzed the human gait and the gallop of horses in his documentary photographs and managed to create endless loops with them. Looking at Gubler‘s video loops with their precise endless loops, time seems to stand still. Like the symbolism of the Ouroboros, the eternal snake, or Nietzsche‘s „ Eternal Recurrence “, the loop unfolds in its structure its very own relationship to time, which is unique in this media.

In his video works, Gubler uses various techniques to edit his video loops, resulting in different processes of creation and appearances of the works.