Kodak Knows No Dark Days

2022
13’58” three-channel video installation



Documentation from Groot Atelier
Weekend 2023 at SOUP Space (2023). 


In 'Kodak Knows No Dark Days' Xaver Könneker examines the peculiar intersection between the smile, death and the practice of forensic odontology. By tracing the history of Kodak and its unintended link with forensic identification, he invites us to radically rethink what it means to smile for a photograph.