David Claerbout October 7, 2005

In David Claerbout's extra-ordinary video installations, everyday movements, like the movement of the wind through the leaves of a tree, are manipulated in such a way that time seems to dissolve. Working in remarkable and diverse settings, his work fuses the categories of photography and film.

Claerbout seeks to question the durability and meaning of photographic images in our digital world. He works at a threshold where the differentiation between 'old' media of film, video and photography no longer holds. His works reflect our contemporary culture, in which visual information can be easily manipulated and the understanding of the truthfulness of images may no longer apply.

The exhibition and its accompanying publication are a collaboration with Lenbachhaus Munchen, Berliner Kunstlerprogramm/DAAD, and Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven.