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Eitan Efrat is co-founder of the Brussels-based, artist-run collective Messidor together with Sirah Foighel Brutmann, Pieter Geenen, and Meggy Rustamova. Efrat (b. 1983, Tel Aviv) lives and works in Brussels. Efrat’s practice focuses on the performative aspects of the moving image. In his work, he aims to mark the spatial and durational potentialities of reading of moving and still images, the relations between spectatorship and history,the temporality of narratives and memory, and the material surfaces of image production. His work, in collaboration with Sirah Foighel Brutmann, has been shown in solo exhibitions at Kunsthalle Basel; Argos, Brussels; and CAC, Delme; in group exhibitions at Argos (BE); Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Humburg; Portikus, Frankfurt; Museumcultuur Strombeek; Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl; Jeu de Paume, Paris; and STUK, Leuven; and in film festivals such as EMAF, Osnabrück; Atonal, Berlin; Doc Lisboa; Underdox, Munich; Oberhausen Film Festival; Les Rencontres International, Paris and Berlin; IDFA, Amsterdam; New Horizons, Wroclaw; Oberhausen Film Festival; Kasseler Dokfest, Kassel; Rotterdam Film Festival; Media City, Windsor; Images, Toronto; Planstik, Dublin; November Film Festival, London; Visite, Antwerp; Bratislava Film Festival; and 25FPS, Zagreb.
