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MEDIA DIGITAL ART AND CULTURE IN FLANDERS BELGIUM - BAM

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A L E X I S D E S T O O P<br />

º 197 1 , KO R T R I J K<br />

A 108, Chaussée<br />

de Charleroi<br />

1060 Brussels<br />

M +32 (0)494 47 47 31<br />

M +61 (0)415 962 125<br />

E alexisdestoop@<br />

gmail.com<br />

An “image-maker”, Alexis Destoop has a<br />

background in photography & philosophy.<br />

His productions examine the experience of<br />

time, elements of storytelling and procedures<br />

of identification and memory. Informed by the<br />

strategies of minimalism, his works, often seductive<br />

in appearance, function as lures, that explore the<br />

deceptive nature of the images. Destoop regularly<br />

works in collaboration with writers, performers<br />

and musicians. His earlier work mainly explores notions of duration and<br />

performativity, as exemplified by the 3-channel video installation With Usura<br />

(2001-2004), whereby three figures manifesting strange & comical discomfort<br />

confront the viewer with unsuspected suffering. More recent work investigates<br />

processes of fiction and narrative construction through the formal film<br />

experiments I’m Happy Men (2005), dealing with the issue of fantasy in the form<br />

a fairy tale, and Pandora (2007) which plays with conventions of the thriller<br />

genre against the foil of the ancient myth.<br />

Focusing on the subject of landscape, Destoop’s is interested in its<br />

artificiality: not a sublime natural object, but a thoroughly human artefact<br />

which can appear overwhelming and non-human. Dwelling (2006-2009),<br />

a meditation on place triggered through our cinematic memory suggests the<br />

bare outlines of a story: an event haunts the desolate setting without ever being<br />

revealed. His lastest project Kairos (2009-2010) re-signifies Australia’s desert<br />

landscape and its history through a science fiction narrative, resonating with<br />

colonial history and the omnipresent actuality of the mining industry, and<br />

questions the relationship between fiction & reality.<br />

4 9<br />

Still from the 3-channel video installation<br />

“4 Directions of Heaven” (2010)<br />

Photography & animation by Alexis Destoop,<br />

text by Aaron Schuster, music by Oren<br />

Ambarchi & Stephen O’Malley

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