[Reader-list] ROOMADE & A-PRIOR PRESENT THE INTRUDER / ANA TORFS - Opening 14/10/2004

[Barbara vanderlinden (T)]

THE INTRUDER

ANA TORFS


Roomade 
Koopliedenstraat 60-62 Rue des Commerçants
B-1000 Brussels

>From October 15 through October 24, 2004
Open from October 15 through October 24
>From 12PM to 8PM
Free entrance 

Contact: 

E: office at roomade.org
E: aprior at skynet.be
http://www.roomade.org
http://www.aprior.org


THE INTRUDER 

The Intruder is a slide projection by the Belgian artist Ana Torfs based on
a text by Maeterlinck. It brings back to live static puppet-theatre and
introduces several characters (family-members) all situated in one room: the
blind grandfather, his son, his son-in law, and his granddaughter.
What are they waiting for? They do not know! They are waiting for someone to
knock on the door, waiting for the light to fade out, waiting for Fear,
waiting for Death. Do they speak? Yes! They speak a few words, breaking the
silence for a moment, then they begin listening again. Leaving their
sentences unfinished and their gestures interrupted. They listen, they wait.
Perhaps she will not come? Oh! She will come. She always comes. It is late,
maybe she will only come tomorrow. And the people gathered in the big room
begin to smile and to hope. There is a knock on the door. And that is all;
this is the whole of their lives, this is the whole of life. Cited from:
Remy de Gourmont, Le livre des masques (Paris: Mercure de France, 1896).

The work of Ana Torfs (Born 1963) includes a 35 mm film, series of
photographic works, slide projection installations and diverse artist's
publications. She investigates, among other things, issues concerning the
portrait, the relationship between text and images, and the complexities of
perception, which are brought up in her work frequently. She has
participated in exhibitions, such as the Lyon Biennial, Lyon (1995), the
Montreal Biennial, Monteal (2000), Exploding Cinema/Cinema Without Walls,
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2001), ForwArt, Brussels (2002)
and Réalités, National Gallery Zacheta, Warsaw (2003). Most recently she is
realizing a newly commissioned web project for the Dia Art Foundation in New
York, New York.


A PRIOR MAGAZINE

The October 2004 number of the Belgium based contemporary art magazine A
Prior will focus on Ana Torfs¹ most recent work. Apart from a visual outline
it will contain texts by major authors. Further  A Prior Magazine  presents
a special artist's project by Franciska Lambrechts (Born 1967) and an
unpublished diary fragment of the Belgian author Daniël Robberechts
(1937-1992). 

A Prior Magazine, English, Dutch and French (Published by VZW Mark,
Brussels, 2004).








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