Anarrations

The exhibition Anarrations aims at showing cinematographic art not only as a derivative of cinema but as a fully fledged discipline with its own specific qualities. The youngest generation of visual artists shakes off the yoke of film history and focuses on the autonomy of the medium.

Four young Dutch artists, Anneke A. de Boer, Fow Pyng Hu, Gabriel Lester and Pia Wergius, explore the relationships between the moving image, time and narration.

In the multidisciplinary field of the visual arts the cinema is hardly conspicuous anymore. Artworks originating in experimental film or found footage exist alongside productions of (digital) video which in turn are influenced by music culture, commercials and computer games. This changed the nature of cinematographic art once and for all. What remains are the principles which by now have found their place within the visual arts and give no more than a hint of regular cinema. This has in turn also become transformed and incorporated ‘art’ material such as (digital) video in its program.

The exhibition Anarrations aims at showing cinematographic art not only as a derivative of cinema but as a fully fledged discipline with its own specific qualities. The youngest generation of visual artists shakes off the yoke of film history and focuses on the autonomy of the medium. Essentially this consists of time – as is the case with the newer medium of video – but the classic principle of the narrative has become so well-known that ‘gaps’ can effortlessly be filled by the viewer. This principle of film has endless possibilities.

In the works of Anneke de Boer (1969), Fow Pyng Hu (1970), Gabriel Lester (1972) and Pia Wergius (1969) the essence of the narrative is affected by stopping time, pulling it apart into different dimensions or holding it topsy-turvy.