Die Arbeit rette uns bezieht sich auf ein Foto des Fotografen Hubert Van Es das dieser im April 1975 in Saigon/ Vietnam schoss. Zu sehen ist ein Hubschrauber der auf einem kleinem Dachaufbau eines Gebäudes gelandet war. Auf einer Leiterkonstruktion stehen viele Menschen um in den Hubschrauber zu gelangen. Das Modell rette uns ist eine räumliche Interpretation dieses Fotos.
Es besteht aus blauen Styrodur-platten und einem 2,5´´ Monitor.
Der in den Hubschrauber eingelassene Bildschirm zeigt eine militärisch gekleidete Person in Wartehaltung. Weitere Personen sind nicht dargestellt.

Material: Styrodur, mp4-player
Video: ca. 5 min. /loop/ Farbe
Maße: ca. 60 x 60 x 60 cm

The work rescue us refers to a photo of the photographer Hubert Van Es that he shot in April 1975 in Saigon/ Vietnam. One sees a helicopter placed on a small roof
of a building. There are many people standing on a ladder construction trying to get into the helicopter.The model rescue us is a spatial interpretation of this photo. It consists of blue colored Styrofoam plates and a 2,5´´mp4-player. The video shows a militarily dressed person in an empty space- waiting. Further persons are not visible. The model might be regarded as a proposal for a monument, architecture or just as the individual object itself.

“If you looked north from the office balcony, toward the cathedral, about four blocks from us, on the corner of Tu Do and Gia Long, you could see a building called the Pittman Apartments, where we knew the C.I.A. station chief and many of his officers lived. Several weeks earlier the roof of the elevator shaft had been reinforced with steel plate so that it would be able to take the weight of a helicopter. A makeshift wooden ladder now ran from the lower roof to the top of the shaft. Around 2:30 in the afternoon, while I was working in the darkroom, I suddenly heard Bert Okuley shout, „Van Es, get out here, there‘s a chopper on that roof!“

Material:Styrofoam, mp4 player
Size approx.: 60 x 60 x 60 cm
Video: about 5 min. (loop), colour