In this first major survey of David Claerbout's work in Belgium, the development of the artist's practice is traced across both thematic and chronological lines. Although he originally trained as a painter, the Belgian artist has made a name for himself with video, film, and photographic projections characterized by slowness, precision, and by the unraveling or freezing of time such that time itself is made almost physically palpable. As The Time that Remains, the title of his exhibition suggests, temporality and duration are the central axes along which this exhibition of his work is built. It thus follows the evolution of his ...

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Kasper Akhøj After the Fair
Angelique Campens has chosen Danish artist Kasper Akhøj (b. 1976). For his first solo exhibition in Belgium, After the Fair, Akhøj will present a number of his research-based works incorporating photography, slide projections and sculptural installation. Starting out somewhere not so distant from the testimony gathering and fact-finding methods of a historian, combined with an element of chance, the works in the exhibition propose a counterpoint to previously registered stories of modern architecture and design. Through an accumulation of collected narratives, historical layers, assoc...

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