As a part of XII Media Forum in the frames of 33rd Moscow International Film
Festival.
Born in Indonesia, she grew up in Australia and now lives in the Netherlands,
where she became so famous that she represented this once strange country at
the 53 Venice biennale. For this major port of commerce of the medieval Europe
she created a video story of a boy who went east and travelled there for twenty
five years - the Venetian merchant Marco Polo. This colorful video with its
many stage sets becomes a meditation on her own identity of a “professional
alien” and a declaration of a permanent subject of her works – centuries-long
history of relations between West and East. In her conversations with art
critics she talks of the unstable interrelations between vision, memory and
knowledge, of the untrustworthy eye, of contradictory relations between word
and image, fact and fiction. The journalists in their turn love her brave
experiments with the languages of cinema, art and photography, admire her
impressive list of exhibitions and festivals – from first debut award of the
Netherlands film festival to exhibitions at the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam), Centre
Pompidou (Paris), Documenta XI (Cassel) and many others.
At the Garage both her earliest and her most recent works will be
presented.
Organized by: MediaFest, MediaArtLab Centre for Art and Culture. Co-organizers:
Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture . With
the support of: Royal Netherlands Embassy, Mondriaan Foundation, Goethe
Institute in Moscow.