Sarah Bal painting - looking back - detail
Taking the figure of the dash as its leitmotif, the exhibition combined a subjective iconography of coups d'état with a reflection on the rhetorical device of interruption. These themes were further developed in the lecture performances A Big Basket of Apples (2022) and Homage to the x (2022). In my current research, I am focusing on the notion of image-mediated empathy. The lecture Homage to an Absent Pony (2023) addresses the persistent influence of Christian iconography on visual strategies for evoking empathy. To further explore how images direct our empathic gaze, I initiated the conference and exhibition project Agents of Concern, which will take place at PXL-MAD, School of Arts, in November and December 2023.
Earlier projects include the lecture performance Personally, I'm Most Interested in the Shapes and Colours, which was accompanied by an artist book of the same title (MER. Paper Kunsthalle, 2015); the lecture performance Sarah Bal, Student of Colours (2019); the concert lecture Correspondances mystérieuses, in collaboration with pianist Lucas Blondeel (2019/2021); and the short video Zwischen den Bildern (2020).
Earlier projects include the lecture performance Personally, I'm Most Interested in the Shapes and Colours, which was accompanied by an artist book of the same title (MER. Paper Kunsthalle, 2015); the lecture performance Sarah Bal, Student of Colours (2019); the concert lecture Correspondances mystérieuses, in collaboration with pianist Lucas Blondeel (2019/2021); and the short video Zwischen den Bildern (2020).