Harlan Levey Projects
Art Rotterdam 2016

New Available Video Sculptures by Emmanuel Van der Auwera

In Emmanuel Van der Auwera’s series of video sculptures, the notion of screen as window to reality is literally stripped of its flatness, symbolically revealing the underlying mechanics of a television through deconstruction by the artist’s hand.

While sculpting the hardware, Van der Auwera continues his extensive research of contemporary video content and identifies those that accurately reflect cultural currents in the flux of postmodern bizarreness. These range from all-encompassing messianic political events (full of manipulative symbols) to individual confessions and intimate moments.