Stan Douglas
dal 6/10/2015 al 9/1/2016
Segnalato da
6/10/2015
Stan Douglas
Wiels - Contemporary Art Center, Bruxelles
Interregnum. Featuring two elaborate film installations accompanied by selections from 3 photographic series, the exhibition reveals Douglas's conceptual and technical mastery of filmic forms, which represent and render perceivable time, history, and memory.
curated by Dirk Snauwaert
WIELS opens its new cultural season in October – a little later than normal due to
renovation works – with the big retrospective exhibition of Canadian artist Stan
Douglas.
Stan Douglas (b. 1960, Vancouver) is best known for his visually absorbing
and sophisticated films and video installations. However, over the last decennia he
has also created a significant body of photographic work.
WIELS brings both together
in this topical survey entitled Interregnum, a title alluding to a historical moment
of suspension and in-between-ness.
Featuring two elaborate film installations
accompanied by selections from three photographic series, the exhibition reveals
Douglas’s conceptual and technical mastery of filmic forms, which represent and
render perceivable time, history, and memory.
A world premiere at WIELS
Douglas’s new six-screen installation The Secret Agent (2015) – shown at WIELS for
the first time – transposes the storyline of Joseph Conrad’s eponymous spy novel to
the context of Portugal’s 1974 Carnation Revolution, a liberatory moment that was
quickly confronted by the logics of terror of the Cold War. The film loosely follows
Conrad’s storyline, a primer for popular spy literature.
Stan Douglas has broken fresh ground with the theatre production of Helen Lawrence (2014), which will run on 29, 30 and 31 October as a guest performance at deSingel Antwerp concurrently with the exhibition. The actors’ performances will be simultaneously filmed on stage and integrated into a computer-generated setting.
In collaboration with the Carré d’Art (Nimes), Haus der Kunst (Munich), Kunsthal Charlottenburg (Copenhagen), the Fruitmarket Gallery (Edinburgh), the Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin), and the Berardo Collection Museum (Lisbon).
With the support of David Zwirner, New York/London, and Victoria Miro, London.
The book The Secret Agent, published by Ludion and including essays by Eric de Bruyn, Seamus Kealy and Jason Smith, will accompany the exhibition. With over 200 illustrations and extensive archival material.
Image: The Secret Agent, 2015. Six-channel video projection, sound, with 1 audio equipment rack on wheels, 6 screens, 8 speakers, 6 video projectors. Courtesy the artist and David Zwirner, New York/London and Victoria Miro, London
Press & Communication
Micha Pycke +32 (0)486 680070 micha.pycke@wiels.org
Press conference Wednesday 7 October 2015 at 11:00 in the presence of the artist and of the curator Dirk Snauwaert
Opening: 08.10.2015, preceded by a conversation between the artist and Dirk Snauwaert at 18:30 sharp
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