MEDIA DIGITAL ART AND CULTURE IN FLANDERS BELGIUM - BAM
MEDIA DIGITAL ART AND CULTURE IN FLANDERS BELGIUM - BAM
MEDIA DIGITAL ART AND CULTURE IN FLANDERS BELGIUM - BAM
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D A V I D C L A E R B O U T<br />
º 1 9 6 9, K O R T R I J K<br />
A Kruikstraat 28<br />
2 018 Antwerp<br />
W davidclaerbout.com<br />
hauserwirth.com<br />
yvon-lambert.com<br />
gms.be<br />
The work of David Claerbout is marked by an<br />
interrogation of time as an artistic medium. He has<br />
developed a kind of photography ‘in movement’, a<br />
still movement, into which he introduces narrative<br />
elements. He draws on the conventions of film,<br />
photography, and digital media, challenging<br />
boundaries by combining traditional technologies<br />
in the production of his works. Navigating between<br />
the still and the moving image, between photographic and digital techniques,<br />
Claerbout produces works that are not easy to ‘consume’. Looking at his work<br />
means spending enough time waiting for things to happen, an experience<br />
of duration which provides the viewer both the conditions and the desire to<br />
re-think what narration and story-telling can be in face of the image and its<br />
current technologies.<br />
His work deals with the transient nature of time and place on a specific<br />
moment and the incapability of any form of visual reproduction to completely<br />
capture ‘reality’ as it comes or exists.<br />
Dancing Couples (After: Couples at square dance, McIntosh County,<br />
Oklahoma, 1939 or 1940) (2008)<br />
Single channel video projection, color, silent, 40 min<br />
Courtesy the artist and galleries: Hauser & Wirth, Yvon Lambert,<br />
and Micheline Szwajcer<br />
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