Jonas Müller-Ahlheim
The poor farm’s objects (2024)
Video installation

Filmed at The Waupaca County Poor Farm, a place where people in need would go for room and board in the late 19th and early 20th century. In return, the people who stayed there were expected to work on the farm. The building was privately owned over the years and in 2008, Brad Killam and Michelle Grabner purchased the building to turn it into a not-for-profit art experiment and residency. I spent a week alone in the old house filming the written prompts by Finn, one of the Poor Farm organizers' children that he found on a desk. Those served me as a baseline for the video takes. Trying to fulfill the prompts while discovering the life of the objects. 

Filmed painting by:
Matthew Girson
Portrait Allegory (1991)
Oil on Canvas