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With its title derived from the central piece of the exhibition, Claerbout’s latest video entitled Wildfire (meditation on fire), 2019-2020, the exhibition takes as its point of departure notions of optical truth, the theme of duration, and digital materiality to address the changes and consequences of our altered perception of time and reality within the present digital age.

Inspired by the artist’s inquiry in the amount of power needed to simulate a very detailed digital “still life” of fire, that would in fact, as the artist later found out, most likely set the computer system on fire, the …