Chloé Op de Beeck seeks to give the trivial moments of everyday life special attention, using film, photography and sculptural objects. She registers moments and situations, to present them in a spatial context, building video installations in which cinematic elements are deconstructed and unfold as fragments in an exhibition space.
She focuses on public spaces and human behavior within them, emphasizing the performative nature of our everyday lives. This way, she investigates how architecture and biopolitical forces direct our movements, thinking and acting. The ambiguity between the natural and the artificial is a recurring theme in her work. In the private domain, her focus on theatrical aspects of the mundane results in work about how we represent ourselves, decorate and arrange our environment.
Texts
The subject of attention
Sasha Pevak
A space of distance and presence
Bernhard Rüdiger
A secret meeting with reality
Herman Van Ingelgem