Manon de Boer
Belgium
 

During the residency, de Boer plans to further develop this research engaging in conversation with a variety of experts that can help her reframe the question of time.

Manon de Boer

3 July - 15 September 2017

In the past four years, de Boer has been questioning her practice and the impact that critical recognition and the professionalization of her work as a practicing artist has made upon her creative process. At this self-reflective juncture, the artist is interested in the conditions for thinking and inspiration, investigating notions of open-ended time and of personal and societal rhythms. In her view, to place aimless, untroubled” time in relation to creativity, research, and production offers a political counterpoint to the outcome-driven model that rules the art world and our contemporary life, opening up a space for creation that allows for experimentation, boredom, and failure. During the residency, de Boer plans to further develop this research engaging in conversation with a variety of experts that can help her reframe the question of time.

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Manon de Boer, 3 July – 15 September 2017, Courtesy the artist.
Manon de Boer, 3 July – 15 September 2017, Courtesy the artist.
Manon de Boer, 3 July – 15 September 2017, Courtesy the artist.
Manon de Boer, 3 July – 15 September 2017, Courtesy the artist.
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Contributors
Manon de Boer
Manon de Boer
Artist-in-Residence
Belgium

Personal narration and/or musical interpretation define both the method and the subject of Manon de Boer’s practice. Working primarily with the moving image, over twenty years she has composed a series of “portrait films” that explore the intimate relationship between language, memory, sound, and time while continuously interrogating truth claims, biographical narratives, and the medium of film itself.

Manon de Boer (b. 1966) is a Dutch artist based in Brussels. She completed her artistic education at the Akademie Van Beeldende Kunsten, Rotterdam, and at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Her work has received wide international recognition. Her most recent solo shows include presentations at Secession, Vienna, Austria (2016), Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands (2013), Philadelphia Museum of Art, United States (2012); Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, United States (2011).