M HKA gaat digitaal

Met M HKA Ensembles zetten we onze eerste échte stappen in het digitale landschap. Ons doel is met behulp van nieuwe media de kunstwerken nog beter te kaderen dan we tot nu toe hebben kunnen doen.

We geven momenteel prioriteit aan smartphones en tablets, m.a.w. de in-museum-ervaring. Maar we zijn evenzeer hard aan het werk aan een veelzijdige desktop-versie. Tot het zover is vind je hier deze tussenversie.

M HKA goes digital

Embracing the possibilities of new media, M HKA is making a particular effort to share its knowledge and give art the framework it deserves.

We are currently focusing on the experience in the museum with this application for smartphones and tablets. In the future this will also lead to a versatile desktop version, which is now still in its construction phase.

Vérité Exposée, 2006

Photography

©Ana Torfs

Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp (Inv. no. BK7614_M385).

Vérité exposée shows 24 times the handwritten word "vérité" (truth) on 24 xerocopies of photographs of an empty slide projection on a white wall. The fields of light appear in perspective distortion, having been photographed from a variety of viewpoints, which can be read as symbolic of different vantage points. The handwriting of the word “vérité,” too, is slightly different in each image. The French adjective “exposée” can be translated as "exhibited" or "revealed," but also refers to the photographic exposure. Ana Torfs exposes and exhibits truth in all its relativity.

The work must be read as making a programmatic point: different vantage points, different truths are one of the artist’s major themes. Where Torfs’ works draw on historic protocols, she shows that, despite the presence of many witness accounts, we cannot prove a single conclusive truth. Neither language nor images are entirely reliable. The ephemeral projections of her slide installations create a distance between the beholders and what they see, making them aware that the picture of the world they perceive is always subjective.

The slide projections show static individual images, but as displayed in sequence they may suggest a process in time and motion; this places them halfway between photography and film. And so Vérité exposée is, Ana Torfs says, also an act of homage to a famous line in the French director Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960 film Le Petit Soldat (The Little Soldier): "La photographie, c’est la vérité, et le cinema, c’est vingt-quatre fois la vérité par seconde." (Photography is truth, and cinema is truth 24 times a second.) (Georgia Holz)

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> Ana Torfs.

Exhibitions & Ensembles

> Exhibition: The collection XXXIII – The Collection as a Character. M HKA, Antwerpen, 07 June 2013 - 22 September 2013.

> Ensemble: Collectie Vlaamse Gemeenschap.

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