David Claerbout Sections of a Happy Moment, 2007 Copyright: David Claerbout

THE 1st OCTOBER AT 6.30PM : VIDÉO ET APRÈS WITH THE ARTIST, CINEMA 1

Following exhibitions devoted to Stan Douglas in 1994, Johan Grimonprez in 1997, James Coleman in 1996, Pierre Huyghe in 2000, Ugo Rondinone in 2003 and Isaac Julien in 2005, the Centre Pompidou's Department of New Media presents the work of Belgian artist David Claerbout, born in Courtrai in 1969.

Claerbout blurs the line between the still and the moving image, digitally manipulating analogue images to create works that invite a reconsideration both of the image and of our perceptions of space and time. After Paris, the exhibition travels to the MIT List Center in Cambridge (February-April 2008), the Kunstmuseum St Gallen (May-June 2008) and the Belkin Galleries, UBC, Vancouver (Autumn 2008), and then to the De Pont Foundation, Tilburg, and the Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, in 2009.

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