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Loss

Artist Hans Op de Beeck (Belgian, born 1969)

Date2004

DimensionsDVD disk; video projection, 11 minutes, repeated.

MediumVideo (DVD)

ClassificationTime-Based Media

Credit LineMuseum Purchase, by exchange

Object number

2004.87A-B

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DescriptionRunning time: 11 minutes

Label TextHans Op de Beeck digitally “painted” over photographic images for Loss with a computer, changing one aspect of each successive frame so that the visuals transform slowly. He then added an evocative “soundscape” composed of environmental, digital, machine, and body sounds. Formal gardens, crickets chirping, and barren landscapes may not automatically suggest the idea of loss, but it is the transformation and accumulation of these images and sounds that imply the emotion. “The mysterious late 19th-century gardens and architecture…are gradually evolving towards the…apocalyptic landscapes of the first World War. From structured top-culture to chaos,” Op de Beeck explains. With the video, he hoped to stress “the alienating experience of ‘loss’ in the broadest sense: loss of ‘self,’ loss of awareness, consciousness, but also loss of a family member, of a lover, or loss of memory, orientation, etc.” The specific interpretation of any image or sound is left up to the viewers and their own personal experiences with loss.Exhibition HistoryParis, Exposition Personnelle, September 4 - 30, 2004. Miami, Florida, Art Positions - Art Basel Miami Beach, December 2 - 5, 2004.