Claerbout's works outline to what extent recent visive language have made it possible to separate photographic time as a category of perception, from actual photography, understood as a technique for producing images.
English Edition.
The artist crosses and merges still images with moving images: he re-processes every part of analogical photographic images to create apparently narrative digital compositions, capable of altering our perception of images, time and reality.
The exhibition at MART – the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto – offers an anthology of about ten films produced by the artist from the 1990s (Kindergarten Antonio Sant’Elia 1932, made in 1998, where the landscape of a photograph, digitally manipulated, results in imperceptible luminous vibration) to his most recent films, such as The American Room, made in 2009: the dilated sequence of a single scene, produced from a series of photographs. The catalog, which is being published in Italian and English, contains contributions from Saretto Cincinelli, Sergio Mah, Philippe Dubois, J.J. Charlesworth and Thomas D. Trummer.