Collection XXVIII
Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, MuHKA, Antwerpen, Antwerp, 06/17/2011 - 09/18/2011
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'If you shoot a bullet in a vacuum, will it keep travelling forever?' - Emily Wardill
M HKA has invited British video and performance artist Emily Wardill to make a selection of works from the collection and to show two of her own films, The Diamond (Descartes's Daughter) and Game Keepers without Game. Words and voices are prominent in the films, but much less so in the selected works, which demonstrate other ways of seeing and understanding.
The subtitle of this summer’s collection presentation is quoted from Fulll Firearms, Emily Wardill’s newest film. It is co-commissioned by If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want to Be Part of Your Revolution in Amsterdam, Serpentine Gallery in London and Film London's FLAMIN and co-produced by City Projects and FLAMIN, supported by Badischer Kunstverein in Karlsruhe and M HKA. The first screening in Belgium takes place at Cinema Zuid on 14 December.
Wardill weaves the works of other artists into her own narrative. Guillaume Bijl’s, Leo Coper’s, Lili Dujourie’s and Luc Tuymans’s installations say things through objects in ways that are not dissimilar to Wardill’s own approach, as do the actions of Alain Arias-Misson. The photographic images by Dirk Braeckman and Danny Matthys, the drawn and painted images by Elly Strik and Marthe Wéry and the three-dimensional images by Pieter Engels, Cady Noland and Didier Vermeiren also enter into dialogue with the two films – without being made to tell a unified story.
Variation and permutation – the slippage between things that are somehow but not quite the same – are favoured working methods for many artists, also for Wardill. Gert Robijns, another artist who was asked to intervene in the M HKA collection, produced black-and-white ‘doubles’ of works by Bernard Frize, Hermann Pitz and Ettore Spalletti. Both sets of works are included in the exhibition that Emily Wardill has set up as a non-textual double of her own narrative variations and permutations.
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'If you shoot a bullet in a vacuum, will it keep travelling forever?' - Emily Wardill
M HKA has invited British video and performance artist Emily Wardill to make a selection of works from the collection and to show two of her own films, The Diamond (Descartes's Daughter) and Game Keepers without Game. Words and voices are prominent in the films, but much less so in the selected works, which demonstrate other ways of seeing and understanding.
The subtitle of this summer’s collection presentation is quoted from Fulll Firearms, Emily Wardill’s newest film. It is co-commissioned by If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want to Be Part of Your Revolution in Amsterdam, Serpentine Gallery in London and Film London's FLAMIN and co-produced by City Projects and FLAMIN, supported by Badischer Kunstverein in Karlsruhe and M HKA. The first screening in Belgium takes place at Cinema Zuid on 14 December.
Wardill weaves the works of other artists into her own narrative. Guillaume Bijl’s, Leo Coper’s, Lili Dujourie’s and Luc Tuymans’s installations say things through objects in ways that are not dissimilar to Wardill’s own approach, as do the actions of Alain Arias-Misson. The photographic images by Dirk Braeckman and Danny Matthys, the drawn and painted images by Elly Strik and Marthe Wéry and the three-dimensional images by Pieter Engels, Cady Noland and Didier Vermeiren also enter into dialogue with the two films – without being made to tell a unified story.
Variation and permutation – the slippage between things that are somehow but not quite the same – are favoured working methods for many artists, also for Wardill. Gert Robijns, another artist who was asked to intervene in the M HKA collection, produced black-and-white ‘doubles’ of works by Bernard Frize, Hermann Pitz and Ettore Spalletti. Both sets of works are included in the exhibition that Emily Wardill has set up as a non-textual double of her own narrative variations and permutations.