Lieu d’Art Contemporain
2012 Lieu d’Art Contemporain, Narbonne/F
Preserved Places
2012 Preserved Places, Drawing Centre, Diepenheim
Faith Fear Face
2012 Faith Fear Face In the police files these three words appear often. It’s about loss of faith, fear, losing face; if people have gone to another country and are exploited, have to survive through crime or prostitution, they cannot ever go back. Losing your face. The structural elements in this installation are shadow projections…
Body Scan
2012 Body Scan (studies for Faith Fear Face) Because of Container (2005) I was asked to do a project about people who try to flee towards a better future by hiding in containers transported by lorries and ships. Sometimes this ends in disaster, like the 58 Chinese who died in 2000 trying to reach the…
it is there – that is it
2012 it is there – that is it. shadows of moments passed (eschenau summer press publications) When i was working in herman de vries’ biotope of the Steigerwald Forest, I planned to make a video in the woods, his studio. herman dropped me and my materials somewhere, I installed the paper and the camera but it…
Les Ballets Russes
2012 Les Ballets Russes The title comes from the text Rob Scholte wrote to accompany this video. He drew my attention to an aspect I had not noticed: in a way it is unconventional and controversial what these kids do because of the pureness of their movements. Being adults we would not be able to…