Many of my works are intended to be playful and funny while still asking serious questions about the nature of the world and the way we understand it.

In my studio I create simple experiments and tests with everyday materials and objects, which become like actors in a play, taking on new roles. In these short videos I can explore ideas about what it means to be in the world, how the way we name 'things' affects the way we use and understand them, and the connections between seeing and thinking, looking and knowing.

I'm Daniel von Sturmer and I'm here to introduce The Object of Things (Sequence 2). This work was made as part of a larger installation for Venice Biennale in 2007 and there were five videos in all in that particular work.

For this work I made a small set, which was a kind of light box, or light table. Very simply made and, you cut up some pieces of acetate in three different colours, the primary colours, red, yellow and blue, and, threw these small squares on to the table.

And tried out different ways of doing it, looked at different patterns that they made and tried to think about what kinds of relationships between the colours could form depending on where and how I threw the squares on to the table.

I try to make work out of very simple things which can lead to questions that are perhaps more complex. Such as how light works, how colour behaves, how they work in our perception. And I guess another aspect of the work is that I'm interested in taking things apart, things that we are familar with. If you take them apart, you can look at them in new ways when you put them back together.