Exhibitions at Jan Mot

12/06/15 - 27/07/15

Manon de Boer, Joachim Koester, Ian Wilson

20/09/12
Manon de Boer

one, two, many (2012); Two Times (2008); Dissonant (2010)
Film Screening
at CINEMATEK, Brussels
in collaboration with Auguste Orts vzw

21/05/11 - 09/07/11

Manon de Boer, David Lamelas, Ian Wilson
People and Time

04/07/08
Manon de Boer
Switch (live version)
Performed by Michael Schmid
Duration (ca. 15 min.)
Followed by the book launch of ‘Manon de Boer’, published by Frankfurter Kunstverein and Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art.
Part of the Oral Culture series

27/04/08
Manon de Boer
Presto, Perfect Sound and Two Times 4’33”
Screening at Flagey Studio 5, Brussels
In collaboration with Auguste Orts vzw

09/12/04 - 29/01/05

Robert Barry, Manon de Boer, Pierre Bismuth, Daniel Buren, Douglas Gordon Joachim Koester, David Lamelas, Jonathan Monk, Mario Garcia Torres, Ian Wilson
Today is just a copy of yesterday

16/05/03 - 16/05/03

Manon de Boer and Dora Garcia
Presentation of two websites

27/09/02 - 19/10/02

Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Sven Augustijnen, Richard Billingham, Pierre Bismuth, Manon de Boer, Rineke Dijkstra, Honoré ∂'O, Dora García, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Douglas Gordon, Joachim Koester, Sharon Lockhart, Deimantas Narkevičius, Uri Tzaig, Ian Wilson
New Space Opening Show

01/02/01 - 10/03/01

Manon de Boer
The Alpha and Omega Project

07/01/98 - 07/02/98

Manon de Boer & Ed Ruscha
Audio / Video / Books

03/07/96 - 03/08/96

Pierre Bismuth, Maria Blondeel, Manon de Boer,
Rebecca Bournigault, Adam Chodzko, Michael Curran,
Tracey Emin, Dora García, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster,
Douglas Gordon, Joseph Grigely, Pierre Huyghe,
Renée Kool, David Lamelas, Kobe Matthys,
Wouter van Riessen, Ian Wilson, Zapp magazine
PERFECT

Works

Manon de Boer & Latifa Laâbissi
Persona, 2022
HD video, color, sound, 4:3, 31’

Manon de Boer & Latifa Laâbissi
Ghost Party (2), 2022
HD video, color, sound, 4:3, French spoken (English st), BE/FR, 58’

Manon de Boer - Bella, Maia and Nick

Manon de Boer
Bella, Maia and Nick (From nothing to something to something else, part 1), 2018
HD video, color, sound, no dialogue, GB/DE, 26 minutes, film still

Manon de Boer - Caco, Jaoa, Mava and Rebecca

Manon de Boer 
Caco, João, Mava and Rebecca (From nothing to something to something else, part 2), 2019
HD video, color, sound, 48 minutes, film still

Manon de Boer 
Caco, João, Mava and Rebecca (From nothing to something to something else, part 2), 2019
HD video, color, sound, 48 minutes

Manon de Boer, Oumi

Manon de Boer
Oumi (From nothing to something to something else, part 3), 2019
HD video, color, sound, 14 minutes 32 seconds, film still

Manon de Boer
Maud Capturing the Light ‘On a Clear Day’, 2015
16 mm film transferred to video, colour, silent 
2 minutes 20 seconds
edition of 6 and 2 A.P.

Manon de Boer - The Untroubled Mind, 2013 - 2018
Manon de Boer - The Untroubled Mind, 2013 - 2018
Manon de Boer - The Untroubled Mind, 2013 - 2018
Manon de Boer - The Untroubled Mind, 2013 - 2018
Manon de Boer - The Untroubled Mind, 2013 - 2018
Manon de Boer - The Untroubled Mind, 2013 - 2018
Manon de Boer - The Untroubled Mind, 2013 - 2018
Manon de Boer - The Untroubled Mind, 2013 - 2018
Manon de Boer - The Untroubled Mind, 2013 - 2018
Manon de Boer - The Untroubled Mind, 2013 - 2018
Manon de Boer, The Untroubled Mind

Manon de Boer 
The Untroubled Mind, 2013 – 2018 
10 prints on baryta paper (12 x 16 cm, each), mounted on cardboard (36 x 40 cm, each), box (52 x 41 x 6 cm)
edition of 10 and 2 A.P.

Manon de Boer 
The Untroubled Mind, 2013 – 2018 
10 prints on baryta paper (12 x 16 cm, each), mounted on cardboard (36 x 40 cm, each), box (52 x 41 x 6 cm)
edition of 10 and 2 A.P.

Manon de Boer 
The Untroubled Mind, 2013 – 2018 
10 prints on baryta paper (12 x 16 cm, each), mounted on cardboard (36 x 40 cm, each), box (52 x 41 x 6 cm)
edition of 10 and 2 A.P.

Manon de Boer 
The Untroubled Mind, 2013 – 2018 
10 prints on baryta paper (12 x 16 cm, each), mounted on cardboard (36 x 40 cm, each), box (52 x 41 x 6 cm)
edition of 10 and 2 A.P.

Manon de Boer 
The Untroubled Mind, 2013 – 2018 
10 prints on baryta paper (12 x 16 cm, each), mounted on cardboard (36 x 40 cm, each), box (52 x 41 x 6 cm)
edition of 10 and 2 A.P.

Manon de Boer 
The Untroubled Mind, 2013 – 2018 
10 prints on baryta paper (12 x 16 cm, each), mounted on cardboard (36 x 40 cm, each), box (52 x 41 x 6 cm)
edition of 10 and 2 A.P.

Manon de Boer 
The Untroubled Mind, 2013 – 2018 
10 prints on baryta paper (12 x 16 cm, each), mounted on cardboard (36 x 40 cm, each), box (52 x 41 x 6 cm)
edition of 10 and 2 A.P.

Manon de Boer 
The Untroubled Mind, 2013 – 2018 
10 prints on baryta paper (12 x 16 cm, each), mounted on cardboard (36 x 40 cm, each), box (52 x 41 x 6 cm)
edition of 10 and 2 A.P.

Manon de Boer 
The Untroubled Mind, 2013 – 2018 
10 prints on baryta paper (12 x 16 cm, each), mounted on cardboard (36 x 40 cm, each), box (52 x 41 x 6 cm)
edition of 10 and 2 A.P.

Manon de Boer 
The Untroubled Mind, 2013 – 2018 
10 prints on baryta paper (12 x 16 cm, each), mounted on cardboard (36 x 40 cm, each), box (52 x 41 x 6 cm)
edition of 10 and 2 A.P.

Manon de Boer 
The Untroubled Mind, 2013 – 2018 
10 prints on baryta paper (12 x 16 cm, each), mounted on cardboard (36 x 40 cm, each), box (52 x 41 x 6 cm)
edition of 10 and 2 A.P.

Manon de Boer
The Untroubled Mind, 2013 – 2016
16 mm film transferred to video, color, silent
7 minutes 39 seconds
edition of 6 and 2 A.P. 

Manon de Boer
Dissonant, 2010
16 mm film transferred to video, colour, sound
10 minutes 40 seconds
(excerpt)

Manon de Boer, Sylvia

Manon de Boer
Sylvia Kristel – Paris, 2003
super-8 film transferred to video, color and stereo sound
French spoken, English subtitles
39 minutes, filmstill
edition of 5 and 2 A.P.

Sylvia Kristel – Paris is a portrait of Sylvia Kristel, best known for her role in the 1970’s erotic cult classic Emmanuelle, as well as a film about the impossibility of memory in relation to biography. Between November 2000 and June 2002 Manon de Boer recorded the stories and memories of Kristel. At each recording session she asked her to speak about a city where Kristel has lived: Paris, Los Angeles, Brussels or Amsterdam; over the two years she spoke on several occasions about the same city. At first glance the collection of stories appears to make up a sort of biography, but over time it shows the impossibility of biography: the impossibility of ‘plotting’ somebody’s life as a coherent narrative.

Biography

Manon de Boer
 
Born in 1966 in Kodaicanal, India
Lives in Brussels

co-founder of Auguste Orts

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Bibliography

News

07/01/23

On the occasion of Passage for Persona, the upcoming solo exhibition of Manon de Boer opening at the gallery on Saturday, January 28 from 3 to 7 pm, we are pleased to announce the presentation of the edition Cast by Manon de Boer. Previously presented at Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (CH) and Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens (BE), it consists of 29 unique Polaroids, each of which represents an important inspiration for Manon de Boer. A selection of editions will be available for purchase at Jan Mot, Brussels. Each edition has a certificate of authenticity, in a box specially designed by Clara Gevaert. Only three Polaroids of each vase exist: one exhibition copy, the edition of Kunstmuseum St. Gallen and the edition of MDD. Price: €450 (incl. VAT) per Polaroid. 

24/02/22

On March 1st the Cinematek in Brussels is organising a double premiere of works by Manon de Boer and Latifa Laâbissi in presence of the artists (at 7 and 9pm). In Ghost Party (2) (2022, 58'), De Boer and Laâbissi create little fictions with vases, stones and other materials, while giving voice to texts of 'ghosts' from their shared genealogies, like Marguerite Duras, Serge Daney, Casey and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. In this polyphony of voices and accents their beings blend with others, subtly questioning the politics of language and identity (7pm). Persona (2022, 31') is a film based on Écran Somnambule, a performance by Latifa Laâbissi (2012) in turn based on the film “Mary Wigman tanzt” (1930), an excerpt of “La Danse de la sorcière” (1926). This second screening (9pm) will furthermore include two films by Chantal Akerman Portrait d’une paresseuse (1986, 8’) and J’ai faim, j’ai froid (1984, 13’). (Image: Manon de Boer and Latifa Laâbissi, Persona, 2022).

 

26/06/21
Contour 10

The Brussels-based production and distribution platform Auguste Orts founded by Herman Asselberghs, Sven Augustijnen, Manon de Boer and Anouk De Clercq was appointed to curate the 10th edition of Contour Biennale in Mechelen in fall 2023.
Since 2003, Contour Biennale has grown into a locally and internationally acclaimed exhibition focussed on the moving image. The four artists want to explore how they can unlock the archive and memory of the biennial in order to give it a place amidst new works and thus propagate the importance of the event in and outside Mechelen. 

10/02/21
Manon de Boer Presto Perfect Sound 2006

Zürcher Kunstgesellschaft acquired Manon de Boer's work Presto, Perfect Sound (2006). The film depicts composer and violinist, George Van Dam, performing Béla Bartok's sonata for violin solo, Presto. Manon de Boer filmed George van Dam six times playing the whole piece while at the same time recording the sound. In order to achieve the ‘perfect’ soundtrack, she gave George van Dam the six sound recordings and asked him to reconstruct the Bartok piece into a perfect sound piece. Afterwards de Boer synchronized the filmed image to this soundtrack. The jump-cuts in the image visualize the cuts in the sound, while the sound sounds continuous. In allowing the audio sequence to dictate the image on screen, de Boer inverts the traditional dominance of image over sound in cinema. The film is a meditation on the relationship between sound and image and offers an intense reflection on a moment of creative concentration.

16/09/20
Manon de Boer - performance at WIELS
Ghosted by the words of artists and writers such as Marguerite Duras, Anne Carson and Casey, in Ghost Party, their new and first performance together, Manon de Boer and Latifa Laâbissi play with language, accents and voices, meshing their selves with others. The performance is part of the exhibition Risquons-Tout and will premiere at Wiels at  the Open School Risquons-Tout (Avenue Van Volxemlaan 316, 1190 Forest/Vorst)  on 30th and 31st of October  at 6.30 and 8.30pm. This performance was postponed due to the new restrictions. New dates are to be confirmed.