Body Poem
In the 1970s and ‘80s Greenham also collaborated with a number of artist film-makers. Presented here in the third Cabinet of the Kunsteverein are two 16mm films by Irm & Ed Sommer, Gesichter (1972) and Body Poem (1970).
Body Poem opens with a line from Paul Valéry — ‘Ce qu’il y a de plus profond en l’homme, c’est la peau’ (‘The deepest thing in man is the skin’) — and here Greenham is credited with the music. A soundtrack of undulating metallic resonance parallels the oscillations of light and shadow that are cast over a tangle of bodies shot in black and white.