Infrastructure is a four-part video work by Rachel Reupke, imagining a transport network threading through an Alpine valley. An airport, railway, autobahn, and ferry port appear center frame, while a constant flow of traffic moves relentlessly. Against this backdrop, tiny human figures walk through the landscape, fleeing, pursuing, or simply traversing the terrain, their personal dramas fleeting and unresolved, often lost within the scale of technological spectacle.

Presented as four miniature journeys, the work contrasts the fragility of walking figures with the monumental infrastructure and sublime Alpine scenery. Their slow, physical movement highlights the tension between self-propelled motion and the modern obsession with speed, efficiency, and mechanized travel, prompting viewers to consider the human scale within these vast systems.

Reupke draws on cinematic techniques from early filmmaking and Hitchcock, combining still photography and live footage using mattes. Extended shots of three to four minutes invite the viewer to carefully observe the walking figures, the layered actions, and the interplay of scale, time, and place. The work transforms the audience into active witnesses of both technical craft and the endurance of human movement within a grand infrastructural landscape.

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Sources: lux.org.uk; newmedia.art.org; Ellen Mueller Teaching; Rachel Reupke, 2005 interview.