Author Archive for: ‘Ji-hoon Kim’

David Claerbout’s Digital Pensive Images

The video installation works of Belgian artist David Claerbout explore the “pensive image” since they confront the viewer with photographs, whose mode of stillness guides her towards the contemplation of them. According to Jacque Rancière, the word “pensive” primarily refers to “someone who is … ‘full of thoughts’,” but this mental state is interlocked with a specific mode of the …

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