Markten
Video-projection
Fixed sequence shot
Stereo audio
HD - 16:9
8’38’’
2014
Fixed sequence shot
Stereo audio
HD - 16:9
8’38’’
2014
Markten is a video piece I developed while living in Brussels. The film is composed of a fixed sequence shot, and studies crowds within a busy marketplace in Schaerbeek, a popular neighborhood north of the city. The market, vibrant and multicultural, has the particularity to be entirely linear, stretching over several hundred meters.
To amplify by contrast the surrounding human and economic activity, I stood motionless in the midst of passers-by. The duration of the video was defined by how long I could carry two heavy buckets filled with water.
By a singular performative intervention, the water buckets become a resonance chamber to the crowds movements. It also represents the most basic good, in the simplest way to carry thus embodying a sense of universality.
I worked in an advertising agency.
I hate advertising.
My experience led to a constant interest in the study of urban and commercial trickery – also known in French as roublardise. To reveal the economical construct of urban contexts, I use the effectiveness of commercial strategies against itself in a tautological and often parasitic manner. To a further extent, my practice tackles the aesthetics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, and efficiency through relational, situational, and contextually specific works, self-reflecting upon the economy of artistic practice in a production-driven society.
works
Long Days (Short Days)
It’s a rat rat’s world
Autoroutes Sauvages
Laatste Ronde
FREE COFFEE** NO SMARTPHONE FOR ETERNITY
Kunst_planten
Towards a new domesticity
SUMMER
Le temps ne brûle pas
Billboard advertising falls on top of two cars during strong wind weather
TikTok vs Abramovic
archive
Days of our Lives
La Tonnelle Universelle
The Opening Super
D.D.-DOMESTICA DOVE
FREE COFFEE*
Enseigne liquide, Goudron lumineux
Groter, Nieuwe, Prix réduit, Toute nouvelle
Markten
The cow, the riot and the kid
Auvent, évente
I hate advertising.
My experience led to a constant interest in the study of urban and commercial trickery – also known in French as roublardise. To reveal the economical construct of urban contexts, I use the effectiveness of commercial strategies against itself in a tautological and often parasitic manner. To a further extent, my practice tackles the aesthetics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, and efficiency through relational, situational, and contextually specific works, self-reflecting upon the economy of artistic practice in a production-driven society.
works
Long Days (Short Days)
It’s a rat rat’s world
Autoroutes Sauvages
Laatste Ronde
FREE COFFEE** NO SMARTPHONE FOR ETERNITY
Kunst_planten
Towards a new domesticity
SUMMER
Le temps ne brûle pas
Billboard advertising falls on top of two cars during strong wind weather
TikTok vs Abramovic
archive
Days of our Lives
La Tonnelle Universelle
The Opening Super
D.D.-DOMESTICA DOVE
FREE COFFEE*
Enseigne liquide, Goudron lumineux
Groter, Nieuwe, Prix réduit, Toute nouvelle
Markten
The cow, the riot and the kid
Auvent, évente