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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 />

3 9

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