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scènes troublées (troubled scenes) is an installation of maximum 21 images showing broad, deserted, and seemingly trivial landscapes and places. In origin they are found footage stemming from photographs from a Belgian colonial family that once lived in eastern Congo. They are dated between 1940 and 1943, while the world was at war, and are taken in the border region between Congo, Rwanda and Burundi, in the heart of Africa. Throughout times these landscapes have been the scenery of different human tragedies: colonialism,
genocide, civil wars, etc. This purified selection is now given its timelessness and eternity, almost devoid of human presence. In that new tension field we are confronted with the backdrop of history. In the loaded aesthetics of this constructed stillness, scènes troublées reflects on the landscape as a bearer of meaning and its relation to personal memory.
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