elephy – Things Shared
November 14 and 15, 2024
The Brussels-based artist collective elephy presents three programs that extend the curatorial vision of their exhibition Living Apart Together (November 13 to December 14, 2024) at Kunsthalle Exnergasse to create connections and correspondences between their own works and other Belgian and Austrian artworks. Here, past and present meet in a dialogue between elephy films and Austrian creations, curated by the artists of elephy: Rebecca Jane Arthur, Chloë Delanghe, Eva Giolo, and Christina Stuhlberger.
Some share a provisional quality. Technology whirs, as if warming up for future use. Elsewhere, a white screen installed among Californian trees is a proposal, perhaps to imagine. Assorted modes of production (filmic, fruitful, lactic) rhyme and half-rhyme through tactile montage in one. Meanwhile in another, a body sleeps anywhere where there is lemony light.
Some share a muted shade of grey, a gradation of snow's white, melted and made sludge. That intermediate color belongs to something elemental here, and mineral there. (It starts to ossify.) Look – gray describes city streets too. Skyscrapers in New York, however, become host to surprise red/green/blue. Here in Vienna, comparable high-rise structures are crumpled and critiqued.
Some share an interest in family history. Yet whether seeking out a lost sibling, or embracing a Filipino mother tongue, or distributing an inherited tongue twister to today's Londoners, these sisters and daughters diminish blood-relation sameness. Even a film that studies a famous woman and her four children across an hour recognizes the tenuousness of family resemblance.
Beginnings, connections, a somnolent pause. Chromatic correlations, then spatial, personal, linguistic. Bringing together works from filmmakers who practice in Austria and Belgium, and complementing a parallel show at Kunsthalle Exnergasse, elephy have created a program in which difference as much as correspondence is the through-line. Here, the through-line frays and multiplies. It thickens. It twists. Here, one through-line is the simple fact of togetherness. They share the space of the program, and an audience in you. (Laura Staab)
All introductions and film discussions (with Rebecca Jane Arthur, Eva Giolo, Cosma Grosser, Viktoria Schmid, Tomash Schoiswohl, Christina Stuhlberger, and Antoinette Zwirchmayr) will be conducted in English.
The Brussels-based artist collective elephy presents three programs that extend the curatorial vision of their exhibition Living Apart Together (November 13 to December 14, 2024) at Kunsthalle Exnergasse to create connections and correspondences between their own works and other Belgian and Austrian artworks. Here, past and present meet in a dialogue between elephy films and Austrian creations, curated by the artists of elephy: Rebecca Jane Arthur, Chloë Delanghe, Eva Giolo, and Christina Stuhlberger.
Some share a provisional quality. Technology whirs, as if warming up for future use. Elsewhere, a white screen installed among Californian trees is a proposal, perhaps to imagine. Assorted modes of production (filmic, fruitful, lactic) rhyme and half-rhyme through tactile montage in one. Meanwhile in another, a body sleeps anywhere where there is lemony light.
Some share a muted shade of grey, a gradation of snow's white, melted and made sludge. That intermediate color belongs to something elemental here, and mineral there. (It starts to ossify.) Look – gray describes city streets too. Skyscrapers in New York, however, become host to surprise red/green/blue. Here in Vienna, comparable high-rise structures are crumpled and critiqued.
Some share an interest in family history. Yet whether seeking out a lost sibling, or embracing a Filipino mother tongue, or distributing an inherited tongue twister to today's Londoners, these sisters and daughters diminish blood-relation sameness. Even a film that studies a famous woman and her four children across an hour recognizes the tenuousness of family resemblance.
Beginnings, connections, a somnolent pause. Chromatic correlations, then spatial, personal, linguistic. Bringing together works from filmmakers who practice in Austria and Belgium, and complementing a parallel show at Kunsthalle Exnergasse, elephy have created a program in which difference as much as correspondence is the through-line. Here, the through-line frays and multiplies. It thickens. It twists. Here, one through-line is the simple fact of togetherness. They share the space of the program, and an audience in you. (Laura Staab)
All introductions and film discussions (with Rebecca Jane Arthur, Eva Giolo, Cosma Grosser, Viktoria Schmid, Tomash Schoiswohl, Christina Stuhlberger, and Antoinette Zwirchmayr) will be conducted in English.
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For each series, films are listed in screening order.
