David Claerbout - Erzähl mir das Ende
© Adagp, Paris, 2018. Courtesy galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
The Espace Louis Vuitton München honours Belgian artist David Claerbout with a new exhibition, Erzähl mir das Ende, produced in the framework of the Fondation Louis Vuitton’s “Hors-les-murs” programme.
In the early 1990s, the cinema theorist Raymond Bellour coined the expression "entre-images” or “between-images", using the term to approach these hybrid images between photography, film and video. The term today would apply perfectly to the work of Claerbout. In Algiers, sections of a happy moment (2008), time is suspended, yet the fragmentation of space – the multiplication of viewpoints and framing – is purified by a temporal dilation. Here, the viewer is ‘omniscient’, one is able to see an action from all angles in that precise moment. Another major layer to Claerbout’s photographic video works is sound. Claerbout himself often refers to his work as “audio pieces embedded in video.” Travel (1996-2013) is a work that was inspired by, and ultimately born from the soundtrack – a synthesised therapeutic music score composed by French composer Eric Breton, designed to reduce stress and induce sleep.
