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Manon de Boer

Sequenza
05.23.14 - 06.22.14
Exhibition — Couvent des Jacobins

Sequenza (2014) Manon de Boer et George van Dam. Produced by Auguste Orts and Le Jeu de Paume, Paris. Courtesy of the artist and Jan Mot, Bruxelles / Mexico City. Photo Nicolas Brasseur, Festival international d'art de Toulouse 2014©Le Printemps de septembre

Laurien (1996-2001-2007) Manon de Boer. Courtesy of the artist and Jan Mot, Brussels / Mexico City. Photo: Nicolas Brasseur, Toulouse International Art Festival 2014 ©Le Printemps de septembre

Laurien (1996-2001-2007) Manon de Boer. Courtesy of the artist and Jan Mot, Brussels / Mexico City. Photo Nicolas Brasseur, Toulouse International Art Festival 2014 ©Le Printemps de septembre

Laurien (1996-2001-2007) Manon de Boer. Photo Nicolas Brasseur, Toulouse International Art Festival 2014 ©Le Printemps de septembre

Laurien (1996-2001-2007) Manon de Boer. Courtesy of the artist and Jan Mot, Brussels / Mexico City. Photo Nicolas Brasseur, Toulouse International Art Festival 2014 ©Le Printemps de septembre

Laurien (1996-2001-2007) Manon de Boer. Courtesy of the artist and Jan Mot, Brussels / Mexico City. Photo Nicolas Brasseur, Toulouse International Art Festival 2014 ©Le Printemps de septembre

Dissonant (2010) Manon de Boer. Courtesy of the artist and Jan Mot, Brussels / Mexico City. Photo Nicolas Brasseur, Toulouse International Art Festival 2014 ©Le Printemps de septembre

Manon de Boer also proposes a conference with Georges van Dam at les Abattoirs, Musée - Frac Occitanie Toulouse.

Born in 1966 in Kodaikanal (India), she lives and works in Bruxelles.

 

For her presentation in the refectory at Les Jacobins, Manon de Boer has worked with architect and designer Kris Kimpe to orchestrate a veritable sequence guiding visitors between the diff erent projection devices, connecting one to another while allowing full autonomy to each of these films made between 2007 and 2014 and representative of the work on images and musicdone by this artist since the late 1990s. 
 
Manon de Boer’s work could well be seen as a continuation of the experiments with utterance carried out by Bruce Nauman (Lip Sync, 1969) and Dan Graham (Lax/Relax, 1969) during the emergence of conceptual art. Like them, in her fi lms she explores the relation between sound and image, and especially between the voice and the body. Like them, she uses the possibilities aff orded by repetition. Like them, she develops apparatuses which heighten the disparity between sound and image, and in which rhythms tend to go out of synch. But what distinguishes de Boer’s territory is the importance she accords to intimacy and memory. She does not fi lm herself, but nor does she fi lm strangers. Instead, she chooses the subjects of her rather unusual portraits from among her friends (Laurien and Robert, 2007), or on the basis of regular frequentation (Sylvia Kristel – Paris, 2003). For example, she began working with the composer and violinist George van Dam in 2003 on the music for his films, before making his portrait (Presto, Perfect Sound, 2006).

Sequenza is co-produced by Auguste Orts and Le Jeu de Paume, Paris.
With the support of Cultuurcentrum strombeek grimbergen, Vlaamse and The Mondriaan Fonds.