DAVID CLAERBOUT

Originally trained in painting and drawing, David Claerbout is known for his works using photography, video, digital technology and sound. His practice revolves around the concepts of temporality and duration, images suspended in a tension between stillness and movement, as well as the experience of dilated time and memory. David Claerbout says that he ‘sculpts in duration. The definition of duration is different from that of time: duration is not an independent state-like time, but an in-between state.’ With his large-scale video-based installations, the artist makes the viewer a part of the work: whether by establishing a connection between the projected images on the screen and the audience, or by creating a spatial relationship between the screen itself and the exhibition space, or simply, by allowing a process by which ‘a single scene can develop into another by the presence of the spectator and a bit of time.’