Reverie

four channel video installation with remote control swan-camera, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 1998

Three video pieces and a remote control vehicle with live feed surveillance form an installation entered through a video ‘hallway.’  The ‘natural’ is put into question as bucolic/tame landscapes vs. wilderness and ‘wild’ birds (swans) are examined through technology as they look back at the viewer looking.

Essay Somewhat Beautiful by Harald Fricke,
Catalog available here
32 pp., color illustrations, Engl./German, 16 x 24 cm

Essay Model Worlds, BE Magazine by Tabea Metzel

artnet: berlin art diary, by Dominic V. Eichler  

“…Gabrielle Jennings' exhibition "Reverie" (she's an L.A.-based artist who was in Berlin on a residency) at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien used images of swans and romantic landscapes to create a surprisingly un-saccharine video environment. Three video projections -- my favorite showing a group of young swans feeding -- were accompanied by a small techno-swan -- a modified remote-control toy whose head doubled as a surveillance camera, which scanned the room. Swan-vision could be viewed on a black-and-white monitor.”