Artwork
📍 Kulturhaus Helferei
Screen Tests
Esther Hunziker
«Screen Tests» is a series of AI-generated black-and-white video portraits, each featuring a human figure in close interaction with a strange, hairy, organic entity. The two appear physically connected, posing together in still, minimal movements with gentle, caring gestures – neither maternal nor monstrous, but subtly unsettling in their posthuman intimacy. Shot in the style of neutral studio sessions, reminiscent of casting situations, the aesthetic references the cinematic tradition of the screen test. The title also refers to Andy Warhol's «Screen Test» films, in which he created his own cache of superstars. Here, actors are interesting enough to carry a film on their own, not by playing a particular role but simply by being themselves – whatever they are, or wherever they come from.

