2016 / Performance / Interactive / Installation
Interactive video performance on the history of the Jewish Museum of Belgium.
Based on an archive photography of the place in 1904, when it was a german school.
First Shown at Jewish Museum of Belgium during “100 artistes en liberté” in 2016.
Dermis Revelation (NFT)
1m25sec 1920×1080 HD .mp4
Derm Reveal is based on an Interactive video performance which had for subject the history of the Jewish Museum of Belgium. The photograph projected on the wall of the museum, and revealed only where it has been carved or sculpted by me, is an archive photograph of the place in 1904, when the building was a German school.
The idea behind this project was to convene former residents of the building one last time, before its demolition. The building oozes with history written in the successive layers: architecture, wallpaper, plaster, paint. It felt like a few generations of ghosts were part of the walls. Looking through the archives of the museum, I was particularly touched by a child class photograph from 1904, at the time when it was a German school, and so it’s those dead girls that I decided to recall.
The work was developed in 3 stages: performance, video installation, then creation of related works as this NFT. (NFT Link)
Triptique Miroir Derme #1
Miroir et photo
(Papier FineArt 100%coton)
37cm x 16cm
pièce unique
2016
Derme duo photo #1
Photo tirée sur papier FineArt 100%coton
Cadre aluminuim
30cm x 40cm
série de 3
Derme III (Collection du Musée Juif de Belgique)
Photo tirée sur papier FineArt 100%coton
107×56,5cm, cadre antique doré.
Pièce Unique, 2016.
2017 / Performance / Interactive / Installation
First Showned at SESC Ipiranga, Sao Paulo, Bresil. Curating: Hugo Cabral Carneiro
Constructing an image / destructing a walls
Dermus Flusser is a performance issued from Derme (Jewish Museum Brussels 2016) and based on the work of the philosopher Vilém Flusser, who first theorized our civilization of the technical image in the 80’s.
A wall of 5.5m wide by 2m high was built in the garden of SESC Ipiranga, especially for the performance, next to the exhibition dedicated to the Philosopher. Black wall on one side, white on the other. At sunset, a black silhouette approaches the black side of the wall and attack it with a hammer and chisel, it reveals little by little fragments of an image “buried” in the wall. The image is actually projected into the holes made in the wall by the artist, thanks to a live interactive mapping technique, working with a video projector, an infra-red camera and a software created by the artist.
The image is building itself in a narration given by the hammer’s hits: a head, a hand, a piece of slogan, a camera pointed, a raised fist, a smartphone. The “buried” picture, drawn from the recent dramatic history of Brazil, is a press image taken in the Brazilian parliament in the tumult of the impeachment process of President Dilma Rousseff. Shakespearean scene, where half of the protagonists are, to use Flusser’s words, “functionnaries” (“people who stand within the communicative process”) brandishing as many “apparatus” (cameras or smartphones, used to record a technical image), the other protagonists acting or undergoing the situation in a mixture of joy and fear.
On the white side of the wall, the images revealed on the black side disappear in an endless loop and in negative. In superimpositions appear selected extracts of “Towards a Philosophy of Photography” by Vilém Flusser as well as some quotations taken from interviews of the philosopher.
The performance develops itself in a tension between the violent attempt by the artist to confer a narrative to the image, thanks to its slow and dramatic unveiling act – while Flusser insists on the post-historical, non-linear and magical side of the technical image, opposing it to the linear, cartesian, political and historical construction of the printed text – and the fragmented reality of the image produced, therefore more incomprehensible, confined to a magical, dramatic status, a-political, post-historical.
After the performance the piece can stay as an installation
