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"An exhibition, seean as a whole, embodies a point of view. But because we are asked to believe in the neutrality of art, that point of view usually goes unnoticed. Yet even a summary overview of an exhibition often reveals an underlying bias."
— An Anti-Catalog, a statement.
"Les mondes peuvent être habités - soit - mais quelle folie est la nôtre de vouloir les doter d'habitants, d'animaux ou d'organismes, vivant exactement à la même époque, à la même seconde"
— Abbé Th. Moreux, Les autres mondes sont-ils habités ?
We are pleased to announce the opening of PARALLAX SCROLLING on Thursday May 16th at 6PM.
The indoor / outdoor exhibition brings together works from Denis Crutzen, Gilles Hébette, Olivia Hernaïz, Elise Leboutte, Sarah Majerus and Britta Vossmerbäumer and results from a six-month collaboration between the Van Volxem Studio and French curator Iris Lafon.
PARALLAX SCROLLING must be seen as a collective initiative, a combination of artistic and theoretical proposals which focuses on the seemingly naïve - yet essential - question :
"What happens when an observer shifts from one position - from one microcosm - to another. How does it impact on his perception, on the way he physiologically or culturally apprehends the subject of his observation."
PARALLAX SCROLLING is about benchmark shifts, norm-sliding, defeated standpoints seeking for respite.
As playgrounds for their interventions, the artists settled on three emblematic spaces, three microcosms with their owen reference systems, codes, gravity forces or artifices.
First the gallery space. Where viewers are asked to limit their observations to one sole kind of recognition: that of the artworks.
Then the city, in this case Brussels. Whar occurs to artworks which tend to escape the gravity field of the artspace? Conversely, what if Brussels - in its most unexpected way - overruns the artspace?
Finally the outer space. A place dedicated to speculative fictions. A place where we will probably never go, the oddities of which we will never experiment.
PARALLAX SCROLLING will be supplemented by a series of performative actions that will take place throughout the duration of the exhibition.
More info at www.parallaxscrolling.blogspot.be/p/programme.html
