The MIT List Visual Arts Center presents Hans Op de Beeck: Staging Silence (2) an exhibition on view February 7–April 6, 2014.
Hans Op de Beeck’s various works across mediums show the viewer non-existent but identifiable places, moments, and characters that appear to have been taken from everyday life. His black-and-white video Staging Silence (2) is based around abstract, archetypal settings that linger in the memory of the artist as the common denominator of the many similar public places he has experienced. These memory images are disproportionate mixtures of concrete information and fantasies, and here they materialize through anonymous tinkering hands. Arms and hands appear and disappear at random, manipulating everyday objects into miniaturized, artificially lit environments. The on-camera construction and deconstruction of these environments lends the video a narrative weight that emphasizes the uncanny quality of spaces committed to memory.
Hans Op de Beeck: Staging Silence (2) is curated by List Director Paul C. Ha.
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