Artist statement: Channa Boon (Premium)
‘‘I'm scratching a hole throught the fabric of reality to cast another view through it'Channa Boon's art practice encompasses performance, (video) installations, drawings, objects, one channel films, video works, pieces for lecturers, singers and musicians, and often all these in combination. Boon's works start with an abstract image, which already contains all the characteristics and content of the work. The role of a concrete, physical device in the work communicates this abstract image towards the outside world. In Boon's work, a fictitious protagonist who expresses this experience in the work often observes an intensified reality. At the same time, this dramatis personae is composed out of several layers of true stories and historical events, which together produce the fabric in the work. In this caleidoscopic way of using different techniques and materials, subjects like racism and art (Bolivia: Cleaning the Museum/Limpiar el Museo, 2008), sculpture and architecture (South-Korea: All that is Solid, 2010), madness and painting (Lithuania: Sasha, 2013), the body and the looting of art (Venice: La Pizia e la Marangona, 2015) and geopolitics and totalitarian societies (former Sovjet Union: Et in Arcadia Ego, 2016) are being investigated in an unconventional way.
Profile Channa Boon on haagsekunstenaars.nl
www.channaboon.com
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