The Truth of Uncertainty: Moving Images From The Hall Collection: Curated by Chrissie Iles

1 Juli 2017 - 28 Oktober 2018 Kunstmuseum Schloss Derneburg

The Hall Art Foundation is pleased to announce a group exhibition, The Truth of Uncertainty: Moving Image Works from the Hall Collection, curated by Chrissie Iles, to be held at its Schloss Derneburg location. This exhibition brings together approximately thirty moving image works by twenty artists drawn from the Hall and Hall Art Foundation collections that call into question the relationship between truth and fiction at a moment in which doubt has come to determine the contours of what constitutes the real.
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Lida Abdul, Dome, 2005 (still)

Comprised of video, painting, works on paper, photography and installation, the works on view articulate this uncertainty in different ways: fictionalizing the language of the documentary; questioning the efficacy of surface and material; expressing ways in which trauma is processed by the unconscious, through dream or trancelike states; challenging the limits of borders and national identity; and exploring the ways in which cinema constructs fiction and subjectivity through a suspension of disbelief.
Jeff Keen, Monsters Eating People, 1950

Naoyuki Tsuji, Jeff Keen, Tony Oursler, Zilla Leutenegger, Barnaby Hosking and Charles Sandison engage the unknown symbolically, in animation, video, and drawings, where surreal, dreamlike imagery mirrors the distortion of reality experienced through war and personal trauma.
Naoyuki Tsuji, Children of Shadows, 2006 (still)

In Tsuji's semi-autobiographical 'Children of Shadows' (2006), a boy and his sister are nearly eaten by their raging father and escape in his car, only to encounter a witch and a giant. Tsuji's images, drawn in pastel and charcoal, are photographed then erased, creating a stop-motion animation in which images are overlaid with after-images, like memories at different stages of forgetting and remembering.
Anthony McCall, Between You and I, 2006

Alternatively, works by Anthony McCall and Owen Land set up an interaction with the viewer by focusing on our perception of the works, rather than on an emotional identification with them.
Owen Land, Film in Which There Appear Edge Lettering, Sprocket Holes, Dirt Particles, Etc., 1965-66 (still)

The title of Owen Land's 'Film in Which There Appear Edge Lettering, Sprocket Holes, Dirt Particles, Etc.' (1965-66) describes exactly what we see - technical details of the film's materiality that are normally invisible to the viewer. Land presents us with the equivalent of the back of a canvas, denying us the cinematic absorption we seek, and replacing it with an awareness of the process of our own looking.
Hito Steyerl, November, 2004 (still)

Finally, in works by Hito Steyerl, Marcel Odenbach, Omer Fast, Javier Tellez, Lida Abdul, Martha Colburn, Judith Eisler, Bettina Pousttchi and Anthony McCall, the uncertain relationship between reality and illusion is articulated in more narrative cinematic terms, in works that collapse the languages of documentary and fiction into each other.
Omer Fast, De Grote Boodschap, 2007 (still)

The interwoven stories in Omer Fast's video 'De Grote Boodschap' ('The Big Message') (2007), where six different characters in a Belgian apartment building are all trying to make sense of the same event, have been formed by the social changes that followed the fall of the Berlin wall and the re-mapping of European politics, borders, and immigration.
Javier Téllez, One Flew Over the Void (Bala perdida), 2005 (still)

The Truth of Uncertainty: Moving Image Works from the Hall Collection includes works by Lida Abdul, Martha Colburn, Judith Eisler, Omer Fast, Barnaby Hosking, Johannes Kahrs, Jeff Keen, Owen Land, Zilla Leutenegger, Anthony McCall, Duane Michals, Marcel Odenbach, Tony Oursler, Bettina Pousttchi, The Atlas Group/Walid Raad, Charles Sandison, Hito Steyerl, Javier Téllez and Naoyuki Tsuji.

Chrissie Iles is the Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City.
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Installationsansichten: Heinrich Hecht
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Juli 2017 - Oktober 2018

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