Author Archives: Frans van Lent

Dubbel (Kreuzberg)


A walk through Berlin Kreuzberg (2006),
starting and ending at Görlitzer Bahnhof.
A camera in each hand,
the two recordings superimposed
in one image.
2 combined sd-videos, no sound
14:24 min.

Related to Dubbel, Berlin Kreuzberg 2012

Shift


A walk from west to east,
a camera in each hand.
Away from the night
towards the day.
The left arm before and
the right arm after sunrise.

Afsluitdijk, the Netherlands, 2006
2 combined sd-videos, no sound
33:98 min.

Raam


Video performance, 60 minutes.
Every minute a man walks to the window, looks out of the window and walks away in exact repetition.

Presented as a video-installation at the Grenzwachturm Schlesischer Busch. Kunstfabrik am Flutgraben, Berlin (D), June/July 2007

Berlin, Germany 2006
One take, DV, sound.
01’00”12

Text on the work by Svenja Moor: Letzte Überprüfung



FACTS.FIGURES

MOP Projects, Sydney, Australia
june, 2006

bijl
© Guillaume Bijl, James Ensor in Oostende ca. 1920 (2004)

In FACTS.FIGURES an integrated exhibition concept has been formulated in which the (pseudo)
documentary character of art is an important issue.
The ‘FACTS’ stand for concrete reality, which is the starting point for all artists, whereas the ‘FIGURES’ capture the final shape of their works.
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Muur

While walking along Hadrian wall, I shot a video hand-held with a long lens.
In the installation Muur, I projected this video on both sides on a wall of cellular concrete blocks.
Video stills alternate with moving images.

Muur (2004)
Kunstkerk, Dordrecht, the Netherlands.

SD-video, with sound
02:11 min.

The work The Empire’s Edge of Hein van de Geyn,
composed in commission and executed within the installation.