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DAVID CLAERBOUT: RIVERSIDE
since January 2012
The Brandhorst Collection’s most recent acquisition in the field of new media is "Riverside", a work by the Belgian David Claerbout (*1969). Divided into two parallel narratives, a man and a woman roam through the same landscape without ever meeting each other. By means of the soundtracks that are different in each of the two parts, Claerbout makes viewers aware of how they perceive the world, something the artist describes as follows: "[…] These little odyssees are triggered by a virtually imperceptible sensory characteristic with which I attempt to express something about the lack of a uniform means of perception and the separation of these two films." Accordingly, the work strives to find a contemporary expression for the pivotal experience in the modern day that there is not just one objective reality. Through the accentuated slow pace of his narration and the consequent concentration on visual and acoustic details, Claerbout creates a new level of awareness among viewers of this subjective view of the world. "Riverside" is on view in the Media Room in lower floor of the Museum Brandhorst.