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Contents: 31 Tiensevest

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Installation and CD Rom

a collaboration with Bert de Leenheer & Dirk Vanhecke

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1 May 1997

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Gallery Transit, Leuven Belgium

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We were invited by Gallery Transit to make a project for the 1996 opening of their new gallery space.

In 1994 the gallery relocated in a beautiful Art Nouveau inspired town house. The only previous occupants, the owners, had stored throughout the house all their belongings, clothes and furniture. Transit moved all their accumulated possessions, as well as the gallery, into the building. They decided to leave only the salon, the physical core of the house free of domestic objects, painted white as the exhibition space.

Two pairs of lives at either end of the century have been laid over one another, the similarities and differences can be found in the stored chaos of material possessions.

With every room of the house nearly full, the conventional classification of things has collapsed. Paintings are stacked on top of furniture, souvenirs mix with food, clothes merge with packed libraries; whose, when, and where, are difficult questions even for the occupants to answer. Into this extraordinary situation we came to work. What began as a photographic inventory -following the logic of Lost Property - gradually disintegrated. However tempting, it seemed dishonest to introduce a stranger's order - to put words into people's mouths - into the complexity of this material entanglement.

What evolved were 148 images and sound, presented in a form of a slide show viewable from the living room of 31 Tiensevest during the duration of the exhibition.

We produced a limited edition CD rom as a catalogue of the project, it contains all the images and features a soundtrack specially composed by the Bammer Project.

Contents:31 Tiensevest was included as part of Material Culture at the Hayward Gallery, London 1998.

In 2007 we made a new yet related project for Transit entitled ArtLife

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Bert de Leenheer
Gallery Transit 2007

ArtLife

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13 Oct 2007

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18 Aug 2007

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Gallery Transit, Mechelen Belgium

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ArtLife is a new project for Bert de Leenheer & Dirk Vanhecke of Gallery Transit, almost a decade after our last Contents.

Responding to an invitation from Bert de Leenheer and Dirk Vanhecke to develop an exhibition, and knowing that the gallerists were keen photographers, we asked for access to all the photographs taken by the gallerists in the last 8 years; the moment when they begun using a digital camera. After looking through some 10 000 images, documenting the gallerists’ involvement in all facets of the art world - trips to biennales, art fairs, visits to museum and contemporary exhibitions, as well as artists studios, dinners with collectors, and endless travels to many cities, we have presented 30 beautiful framed images. A portrait of of people looking at, and being looked at looking at art, has emerged.

ArtLife reverses the traditional expectations of the relationship between artist and gallerist; the gallerists have become a creative source for the exhibition.

ArtLife coincides with Parade our contribution to Contour the 3rd Video Art Biennale in Mechelen, Belgium.

ArtLife Transit installation

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