Chapter 2
December 14, 2007 – February 16, 2008
think.21 Contemporary Gallery
Rue du mail, 21
1050 Brussels
Belgium
T.+32 477 369 316
http://www.think21gallery.com
Think.21 is pleased to present for the first time in Brussels the work of internationally acclaimed artists Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Daniel Rozin, Lincoln Schatz and Björn Schülke. The exhibition will feature electronic, video and kinetic installations, which require the viewer’s active participation in order to ‘exist’.
The artists use in their practice new technologies, software, custom-made algorithms and video cameras to capture the physical presence of the viewer and his surrounding environment. Anyone who approaches the pieces in the exhibition will instantly discover that his presence instigates a set of chain reactions. Each piece responds to the viewer by watching him, recording him, following him and throwing back his image at him. Far from being surveillance devices that control individuals and urban spaces, the works of Lozano-Hemmer, Rozin, Schatz and Schülke are characterized by a playfulness that sets a more relaxed tone to the ‘being watched’ experience and invite the viewer to cultivate his fascination for self-observation.
Their work has been exhibited among others at the Venice Biennial, the Shanghai Biennial, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Taiwan National Museum of Fine Art, Museo de Arte Contempor%-ªcute;neo de Castilla y León, Ars Electronica and California Museum of Contemporary Art.
