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MAP #155 ‘Cinematic Cascades’
Duo exposition with Louis Gahide, presented at KASK, Ghent, Belgium.
MAP #155 was centered around the wonders of text, light sculpture, expanded cinema, and analogue film. The main installation Helle Monne presented was Consider this a conversation.
This installation explores the intrinsic dialogue between film, genetics, and the written word. Utilizing 16mm film, a projector, permanent markers, and cloth, the physicality of film becomes a metaphor for the tangible length of genetic code and the passage of time.
As text is inscribed onto the film and played, an illegible cascade of words unfurls, forming a secret that only becomes decipherable when the projector halts. In this ongoing dialogue, poems and text fragments are written on 16mm film, serving as the DNA fragments of a continually evolving cadaver exquis. The audience is invited to participate by adding their contributions on film during the opening and subsequent days, prompting daily re-edits and creating new mutations in the evolving conversation. The Glazen Gang serves as a symbolic transit zone, raising questions about how interactions change us and what words and images endure. …. a conversation transforms the installation space into a dynamic reflection of evolving thoughts and open secrets.