The video installation `Innerlijke bewegingen van een landschap` (Inner movements of a landscape) that is shown at Arpia 2012, consists partly of a selection from the 160 hours of images that he filmed from his houseboat `MS Dover` of the water that surrounded him.
Innerlijke bewegingen van een landschap (Inner movements of a landscape)
Since 2005 Johan Opstaele focuses mainly on video work in which he researches `the moment`. He started within this framework in 2007 a PhD research entitled: "A la recherche du moment / Framing the moment `
His research starts by observing the movements of water, plants and trees, to subsequently observe the human body with the same researching eye. He finds the `moment` just as important as the `narrative`, which according to him takes too much space in our society, so that too much emphasis is put on cause and effect and too little on the `being`.
A first selection of these video works were to be seen in early 2012 at the Bijloke Campus of the School of Arts in Ghent under the title `Water without Land/ Moment without Narrative`.
The video installation `Innerlijke bewegingen van een landschap` (Inner movements of a landscape) that is shown at Arpia 2012, consists partly of a selection from the 160 hours of images that he filmed from his houseboat `MS Dover` of the water that surrounded him. The work `Self Portrait II`, a reflection of a human silhouette on the moving water surface, finds itself central in the set-up.
