Pieter Geenen
Piero Bisello
Maxime Le Bon
Sander Tas
Danja Cauwbergs
Margaux Schwarz
Eleni Kamma
Davide Tidoni
Eva la Cour
This land is my land. This land is your land. A series of new works in various media. The artist uses the so - called Canadian Tobacco Belt as a point of departure for questions about identity, nationalism and colonialism. SoundImageCulture presents large scale works by 6 different artists.
The
exhibition
This
land
is
my
land.
This
land
is
your
land.
presents
a
series
of
new
works
in
various
media.
Pieter
Geenen
uses
the
so
-‐
called
Canadian
Tobacco
Belt
as
a
point
of
departure
for
asking
questions
about
concepts
such
as
migration,
land,
identity,
nationalism
and
colonialism.
In
the
first
half
of
the
twentieth
century,
this
particular
part
of
Canada
became
home
to
a
large
number
of
European
migrants,
especially
people
from
the
Flemish
-‐
speaking
part
of
Belgium,
who
embarked
on
a
new
life
as
tobacco
farmers.
Today
the
younger
generations
have
adapted
to
the
New
World,
a
world
created
at
the
expense
of
the
native
First
Nations
.
Since
those
early
days,
the
local
labourers
lost
interest
in
the
hard
work
of
tobacco
farming
,
and
they
have
been
replaced
by
foreign
workers
from
Central
America
and
the
Caribbeans.
Geenen
uses
the
story
of
tobacco
—
its
discovery
by
Europeans,
its
cultivation
outside
its
original
habitat,
and
the
economic
decline
of
the
industry
—
as
a
metaphor
for
the
concept
of
colonialism
and
the
migration
wave
that
followed,
as
well
as
for
the
potential
lo
ss
of
identity.
Using
the
tobacco
plant
as
a
vehicle,
the
artist
focuses
on
the
special
socio
-‐
economic
reality
of
the
ethnic
and
cultural
groups
involved.
In
Geenen’s
oeuvre,
“time”
and
“space”
are
concepts
that
can
be
compressed
and
that
can
shift.
“Here
”
and
“there”,
“we”
and
“they”
are
vague
and
mutually
exchangeable.
When
all
elements
converge
in
this
exhibition,
a
new,
undefined
and
ambiguous
reality
results.
A
reflection
on
the
identity
of
every
individual
being
that
questions
both
our
personal
and
o
ur
collective
position.
SOUNDIMAGECULTURE
-‐
INSTALLATIONS
04.10.2015
–
18.10.2015
The
Brussels
workspace
SoundImageCulture
(SIC)
coaches
audio
-‐
visual
art
projects
on
the
interface
between
anthropology
and
the
visual
arts.
Every
year,
the
various
workshops
in
which
professional
artists
and
thinkers
guide
and
advise
the
participants,
result
in some
ten
exciting
film
projects.
It
strikes
us
that
in
the
past
years
the
number
of
multiscreen
works
and
installations
has
increased
exponentially.
For
the
first
time,
Argos
presents
six
of
these
large
-‐
scale
works.
At
the
same
time,
SIC
launches
its
online
platform,
where
all
the
audio
-‐
visual
works
that
were
created
in
the
period
2007
-‐
2015
can
be
viewed.
SoundImageCulture
–
Installations
presents
work
by
Piero
Bisello
&
Maxime
Le
Bon
,
Sander
Tas
and
Danja
Cauwbergs,
Margaux
Schwarz,
Eleni
Kamma,
Davide
Tidoni
and
Eva la Cour.
Image: Pieter
Geenen,
This
land
is
my
land.
This
land
is
your
land.
2015
.
Courtesy
of
the
Artist.
Press contact:
Ive Stevenheydens ive@argosarts.org
PRESS PREVIEW Friday 02.10.15 – 11:00
OPENING 03.10.2015, 18:00 -‐ 21:00
Argos Centre for Art and Media
Werfstraat 13 Rue du Chantier - 1000 Brussels