Body parts on hung from a clothesline, mannequins that come to life and human teeth as currency: the Silvia Martes film The Revolutions That Did (Not) Happen (2021) quickly gives rise to an ominous…
Melvin Moti (Rotterdam, 1977) usually makes silent films: layered narratives with which he tries to get a grip on immaterial things such as time and space in order to place our perception in a broader…
Sunrise (2009), an 18 minute video installation, thrusts viewers into near-total darkness, requiring their eyes to acclimatise to the film which depicts a nocturnal scene inside a villa. A maid is…
The film Gravesend uses a documentary approach to focus on the mining of coltan, employed in the manufacture of cell phones, laptops and other high-tech apparatus. The film cuts between two sites: a…
The Russian Ending , by the British artist Tacita Dean, is a series of twenty photogravure etchings. Depicted in each print is a disaster or a dramatic moment: from shipwrecks and battlefields to…
Long Sorrow , says Sala, is the result of a ‘rather particularly set-up situation, rather than a narrative structure. It’s more a succession of tinted situations, colored by moments of tension,…
Since 2011 the Brazilian-German duo Bárbara Wagner (1980, Brasília) and Benjamin de Burca (1975, Munich) have been producing film and video installations in close collaboration with the musicians and…
Shio 潮 is part of a project consisting of three short films in which the location, the small Japanese island Yonaguni where wild horses roam, plays a prominent role. Since 2015 Dumas has studied this…
Isaac Julien’s Better Life (Ten Thousand Waves) is the haunting single-screen version of the nine-channel installation Ten Thousand Waves , which premiered at the 17th Biennale of Sydney in 2010. The…
Fiona Tan has created Ascent through a montage of over 4000 found still images of Mt. Fuji from the past 150 years. Ascent unfolds as a contemplative visual essay. The work is at once a rumination on…