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A Space Of Confinement
2010
photo Steyt Peña, Luis Peña
16 June 2011 - 16 July 2011
Jonas Vansteenkiste - A Space of Confinement
Opening Thursday 16 June, 19 - 22 h (introduction by Laurence Dujardyn at 20h.)
In A space of confinement Vansteenkiste first starts from the gallery space, which he associative links to the Hitchcock movie: The Birds. This is the second starting point for this work. Vansteenkiste is fascinated by the concept of home and architectural fragments as windows, doors, corridors, stairs, ... Like one of his great examples of the Master of Suspense Alfred Hitchcock. Both see it as a double facet of the house, on one side a safe environment but is also a place that could turn against the people and become a prison.
Confinement (the state of being confined) means including detention, house arrest or in the broader sense fixed in a place. This aspect is of course reflected in The Birds the town houses are under siege from the birds without a viable reason appears that al logic seems lost.
For Melanie, Mitch and the other characters the house seems a save heaven that will protect them from attacks, but this space is also their fragile wooden prison. To Confine ... means to entrust something to someone or something. The duality of the title here is thus a very conscious factor.
The action of Mitch Brenner who breaks up the shed and geaters wood to close every window of his home hermetically fascinates Vansteenkiste, this action he interprets as a harbinger of an intense period of introspection and social tension between the people who undergo this situation.
During the making of a space of confinement remained the question be repeated, how did Melanie feel? This fact is central, the atmosphere of the film leaves the screen and we take on the role of Melanie in this installation.
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Art-O-Rama
Marseille (F)
30 Aug – 07 Sep 2013
art-o-rama.fr
catalogue Veronica Brovall
editor by Veronica Brovall, Hopstreet Gallery
text by Joost Declercq, Tanguy Eeckhout
English, softcover, 32 pages
Catalogue Egill Sæbjörnsson
Editor Künstlerhaus Bremen
English, German, softcover, 32 pages
ISBN 978-3-86895-253-7
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