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Smoke Screen

1997

16 mm film installation

Black & white/colour, silent

16 mm film projector, loop device, 16 mm print

Dimensions variable

Brief Description

Smoke Screen refers to the Netherlands' colonial past and our changed view of it. The cadenza of repetition then allows the viewer to distance themselves from the initial meaning, encountering ever new layers. Who is actually looking at whom here? What role does the image play? Does the image provide judgement, does the maker do that, or the viewer? The process of looking and of looking at looking is being interrogated here.