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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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