June 10–November 19, 2017
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Belgium
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M – Museum Leuven is pleased to reopen with two new solo exhibitions: Double Tales by Aurélien Froment and Sprung a Leak by Cécile B. Evans.
The work of Aurélien Froment (1976, France) navigates from one subject to another. He frequently highlights other artists, but always from his own, personal viewpoint. Verbal stories combine in Froment’s oeuvre with a visual vocabulary. Transformation and complementarity are threads running through the themes explored in his exhibition Double Tales at M – Museum Leuven.
What does it mean to create an image? How is an image constructed? How do images shape us? These are the questions Froment takes as his point of departure. He can use film to show architecture and photographs to present sculpture, while a new video is devoted to a tapestry. His perspective shifts constantly, offering the beholder several different standpoints from which to view the images and stories.
Double Tales curated by Eva Wittocx at M – Museum Leuven presents a comprehensive overview of Aurélien Froment’s work for the first time in Belgium. It includes recent installations, sculptures and photographic series, plus three new video works. Froment’s installations also engage in a dialogue with objects from M – Museum’s own collection and that of the Museum of Musical Instruments in Brussels.
In her installations, videos, online platforms and performances, Cécile B. Evans (1983, Belgium-United States) explores technology’s impact on our behaviour. How do contemporary technologies influence the way people feel and act? Sprung a Leak at M - Museum Leuven focuses on cracks in the relationship between human and machine – which expose vulnerabilities between public and private as feelings are moved through time and space.
Sprung a Leak is an automated play in three parts, in which two humanoid robots and a robot dog perform the leading roles. The conversations between the robots moving through the gallery and the animated and human performers on screens, are reactions to how information is circulated and navigated through machines. In this way, Sprung a Leak lays bare human emotions, but also the sensitivities of a digital world that is constantly changing. The exhibition is a coproduction with Tate Liverpool and is curated by Valerie Verhack.
Press: For more information, please contact Veerle Ausloos, veerle.ausloos [at] leuven.be
