FRONT ROW with Cécile B. Evans (at De Cinema)

— This FRONT ROW Artist Talk will take place at De Cinema —

Screening of ‘Reality or Not’ (2023) + artist talk
followed by a Q & A with Cécile B. Evans

Please join us for a screening of ‘Reality of Not’ (2023) Evans recent film production and a talk with the artist addressing their latest work, methodologies and ways of operating.

‘Reality of Not’ is a film about the production of reality and who it belongs to, which takes as its starting point a group of exceptional young people who’ve been asked to participate in a reality show about how to start a new way of living together. As a means of refusing the show’s storyline, they begin a practice of reality shifting and the film begins to move across worlds.

‘Reality or Not’ asks how reality could be shaped differently if values like power, history, or time were really shifted?

Cécile B. Evans is an American-Belgian artist living and working in Saint-Denis. Evans’ work examines the value of emotion and its rebellion as it comes into contact with ideological, physical, and technological structures.

Evans’ work has been included amongst others at The Sharjah Biennial 16 (UE), Lafayette Anticipations (FR), Whitechapel Gallery (UK), Haus der Kunst (DE), Mito Art Tower (JP), Renaissance Society Chicago (US), the 7th International Moscow Biennale (RU), the 4th Ural Industrial Biennial (RU), Galerie Kamel Mennour (FR), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen (DK), the 9th Berlin Biennale (DE), the 20th Sydney Biennale (AUS), Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (ES), and Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (FR).

Evans’ films have been screened in festivals such as the New York Film Festival and Rotterdam International. Public collections include The Museum of Modern Art, New York (US), The Rubell Family Collection, Miami (US), Whitney Museum of American Art (US), De Haallen (NL), Castello di Rivoli, Turin (IT), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen (DK), and FRAC Auvergne (FR).

About FRONT ROW

FRONT ROW is a monthly series of artist’s talks jointly organised by M HKA and NICC. Serving as an open format to artists – whether a talk, a presentation of an idea, a lecture performance – the programme offers the opportunity to reflect on art, culture and society by some of the most thought-provoking artists practising today.

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