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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S A R A H V A N A G T<br />
º 1 9 76 , B R U G G E<br />
A leperlaan 60<br />
1000 Brussels<br />
T +32 (02) 217 66 06<br />
M +32 (0)486 222 696<br />
E sarah@vanagt.com<br />
W balthasar.be<br />
Sarah Vanagt studied history and film. She<br />
graduated with a film After years of Walking (2003)<br />
a documentary film that deals with the rewriting of<br />
Rwandan history after the genocide of 1994. Recent<br />
work reflects Vanagt’s interest in the way children<br />
deal with history. The documentary film Begin Began<br />
Begun and the video installation Les Mouchoirs de<br />
Kabila (both 2005) show the play-world of children<br />
growing up in the border zone between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of<br />
the Congo and who have to deal with death, war and elections. In 2007, Vanagt<br />
presented Power Cut at the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels. This installation<br />
brings together short videos and photographs made by three boys who were<br />
already involved in Les Mouchoirs de Kabila and voice-recordings made by two<br />
young soldiers who took part in the recent wars in Congo and Rwanda. Hoofd<br />
(2007), combines super 8 footage of the ancient city of Pompeii with the images of<br />
new-born babies. The 2007 video installation Ash Tree is based on the childhood of<br />
Mary Shelly. It shows the image of a 5-year old girl wandering around at a London<br />
graveyard while spelling out the letters on the graves. Her latest work Solar Cemetry<br />
(2009) is a photo installation with light boxes which are powered by solar energy.<br />
Boulevard d’Ypres / Ieperlaan (2010) is an experimental documentary in which<br />
she turns an empty store house into a film studio, and invited her neighbours –<br />
a mix of refugees, shopkeepers, newcomers – to come and tell a fairy tale. For The<br />
Corridor (2010), Vanagt followed a donkey on it’s regular visits to elderly people in<br />
English nursing homes. Currently Vanagt is working on a film in the International<br />
Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague.<br />
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Solar Cemetery (2009)<br />
Camera Obscura © Sarah Vanagt