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Shadow Pieces (David Claerbout)

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An innovative study of David Claerbout's work, following the shady—and dark—logic, until now never raised by critics, that structures many of his films with mineral duration and slowness, but also number of “invisible” photographs.
The works of Belgian artist David Claerbout (*1969) are marked by an interrogation of time as an artistic medium. Inspired both by phenomenology and by Gilles Deleuze's writings on the image and cinema (“The Time-Image” and “The Movement-Image,” 1983), he has developed a kind of “photography in movement,” a “still movement,” into which he introduces narrative elements.
Navigating between the still and the moving image, between photographic and digital techniques, Claerbout produces works that are not easy to “consume”: looking at his work means spending enough time waiting for things to happen—an experience of duration which provides the viewer both the conditions and the desire to re-think what narration and story-telling can be in face of the image and its current technologies.

See also: David Claerbout.
Art historian and philosopher by training, Thierry Davila (born 1963) is an art critic and curator. He is the author of numerous publications on contemporary art and the editor, with Pierre Sauvanet, of the anthology Devant les images – Penser l'art et l'histoire avec Georges Didi-Huberman (Les presses du réel).
 
published in June 2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
22,5 x 27 cm (softcover)
192 pages (color & b/w ill.)
 
28.00
 
ISBN : 978-2-94015-964-2
EAN : 9782940159642
 
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