In the work of British artist Fiona Banner (Merseyside, 1966), opposites play a significant role. This concerns the relationship between words and images, man and machines, but also between the…
Seeing and being seen is the principal theme in this short film portrait by Hamza Halloubi. By way of a simple movement of the camera he creates an exciting and unexpected perspectival shift that…
A series in which Dean painted out the backgrounds of old postcards depicting trees led her to her own photographs of famous or ancient trees in her native England. Here we see the 'Crowhurst yew',…
Girl Stowaway is based on the history of a girl who, disguised as a boy, travelled from Australia to England as a stowaway on a large sailing vessel in 1928. Dean mingled the girl’s narrative with her…
Bárbara Wagner (1980, Brasília) and Benjamin de Burca (1975, Munich) have been an artistic duo since 2011. They live and work in Recife. Their video works are hybrid musical collages that take shape…
The narrator in Walking and Talking wanders about in a museum of contemporary art in London. She realizes that, as a Moroccan artist and an immigrant, she does not identify with the museum and the…
Underlying this work is Tacita Dean's attempt to reconstruct events surrounding the death of Donald Crowhurst at sea. The facts, dating from 1968, make up the confusing and bizarre story of a man who,…
Ai Weiwei (Beijing, 1957) has to a rare degree alternated in his practice between traditional physical artworks, conceptual projects, social activities, design and architecture. This has given his…
In March 2021, while its doors remained closed during the ongoing lockdown, De Pont organized National Chain 2020 / Social Practices , a project by American artist Rita McBride and German…
In Larache, a harbor town in northern Morocco, Halloubi looks for the grave of the French writer Jean Genet. Various narratives take shape during his quest. Initially he keeps a compact camera running…