Harlan Levey Projects, Brussels
Emmanuel Van der Auwera (b. 1982, Belgium) lives and works in Brussels, Belgium. Through filmmaking, video sculpture, theatre, printmaking, and other media, Van der Auwera sets up encounters with images that provoke a questioning of our visual literacy: How do images of contemporary mass media operate on various publics, and to what end? With the formal rigor of a logician, the artist dissects the structure of images; researching how they are engineered, mastering specialized industry techniques, and intervening on their protocol. In so doing, Van der Auwera brings us no closer to a monolithic truth of images, but constructs new paradigms for reading and understanding our relationship to them.
Van der Auwera’s forthcoming exhibition White Noise at 214 Projects (Dallas, Texas) is his first solo presentation in the United States, and will be followed by exhibitions at the Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse, NY, USA) and Botanique (Brussels, Belgium) later in 2019. Van der Auwera is a 2015 Laureate of the Higher Institute for Fine Arts (HISK) post-academic course in Ghent and a 2015 Langui Award recipient of the Young Belgian Art Prize. His work has recently been featured in exhibitions at WIELS (Brussels, Belgium), The Centre Pompidou (Paris, France), Palais de Tokyo (Paris, France), Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci (Prato, Italy), Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria), Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain (Luxembourg City, Luxembourg), and Mu.ZEE (Ostend, Belgium), among others. In 2018, his work was acquired by KANAL Centre - Pompidou (Brussels, Belgium), Mu.ZEE (Ostend, Belgium) and the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (Eugene, OR, USA). Last month the Dallas Museum of Art announced their acquisition of one of Van der Auwera's VideoSculptures.
“White Noise” is supported by the Flemish Ministry of Culture and the La Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles.
For press inquiries and further information on the artist or works in the exhibition, please contact Harlan@hl-projects.com
To view a 3D tour of the exhibition, please click here to view on ARTLAND.
Interviews for further info:
Berlin Art Link
Affidavit
External Links:
Emmanuel Van der Auwera at Harlan Levey Projects
http://hl-projects.com/artist/emmanuel-van-der-auwera/
Emmanuel Van der Auwera on Artsy
https://www.artsy.net/artist/emmanuel-van-der-auwera
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